The cooked rice is tainted, the fried rice is consumed.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Scarce stand the vessels hauled upon the beach, / and bent on marriages the young men vie / to till new settlements, while I to each / due law dispense and dwelling place supply, / when from a tainted quarter of the sky / rank vapours, gathering, on my comrades seize, / and a foul pestilence creeps down from high / on mortal limbs and standing crops and trees, / a season black with death, and pregnant with disease.

The usually delicious meal was tainted with unwashed hands.

Heaven keep us from a knowledge of the secrets whispered afterwards upon the tainted wind that blew across the scene of that day's work and that night's death and suffering!

The stink bug can hide in wine grape clusters and then taint the juice when the grapes are crushed.

The stream was tainted crimson with blood.

Back, from another quarter of the sky, / dark-ambushed, round the clamorous Harpies fly / with taloned claws, and taste and taint the prey.

Anyone who previously partied with the child sex trafficking-celebrity was tainted by association.

After drinking the tainted tea, Tom and Mary joined John's stupid cult in Australia.