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untaintable

untaintable adjective: not able to be tainted, incorruptible.

Adjective

untaintable (comparative more untaintable, superlative most untaintable)

  1. Not able to be tainted, incorruptible.
    • 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.1997, Mark Jenkins, To Timbuktu, page 14
    • How untaintable and sanctimonious are your morals and ethics?2007, Neale Sourna, Hobble, page 230

Forms of untaintable

comparativemore untaintable
superlativemost untaintable

Origin of untaintable

From un- + taintable.

Questions about untaintable

What does untaintable mean?
Untaintable means not able to be tainted, incorruptible.
What part of speech is untaintable?
Untaintable is an adjective.

Words near untaintable in the dictionary

  1. untags
  2. untailed
  3. untailored
  4. untailorlike
  5. untaint
  6. untaintable
  7. untainted
  8. untaintedly
  9. untaintedness
  10. untainting
  11. untaints

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