tainted

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

tainted
    adj 1: touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is
           archaic" [syn: {corrupt}, {tainted}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Taint \Taint\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tainted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Tainting}.]
   To thrust ineffectually with a lance. [Obs.]
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

98 Moby Thesaurus words for "tainted":
      abandoned, bad, bad for, bedraggled, befouled, besmirched,
      blackened, blown, cankered, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted,
      darkened, debased, debauched, decadent, defiled, degenerate,
      degraded, depraved, dirtied, discolored, diseased, dissolute,
      drabbled, draggled, foul, fouled, foxed, foxy, frowy, gamy,
      gangrened, gangrenous, harmful, high, impure, indecent, infected,
      injurious, inky, insalubrious, insanitary, maculate,
      morally polluted, morbid, morbific, mortified, murky, noisome,
      noxious, off, pathogenic, pathological, peccant, perverted,
      pestiferous, poisoned, polluted, profligate, rancid, rank, reechy,
      reprobate, rotten, septic, smirched, smoky, smudged, soiled, sour,
      soured, sphacelated, spotted, stained, stale, steeped in iniquity,
      stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, strong, sullied, tarnished,
      turned, ulcerated, ulcerous, unchaste, unclean, unhealthful,
      unhealthy, unhygienic, unsanitary, unvirginal, unvirtuous,
      unwholesome, vice-corrupted, vitiated, warped