untaintable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ taintable

Adjective[edit]

untaintable (comparative more untaintable, superlative most untaintable)

  1. Not able to be tainted, incorruptible.
    • 1997, Mark Jenkins, To Timbuktu, page 14:
      Sitting in the front seats of the bus staring at the storm burying the highway and the sagebrush and the antelope, Mike and I were trembling from an untaintable, undauntable expectancy.
    • 2007, Neale Sourna, Hobble, page 230:
      How untaintable and sanctimonious are your morals and ethics?
    • 2012, Jo Tuckman, Mexico: Democracy Interrupted, page 254:
      This was rare for a successful Mexican politician, and his supporters held this up as proof that he was not only untainted, but untaintable.