untaintable

adj

untaintable

adj

Etymology From un- + taintable.

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:
1 more example
  • This was rare for a successful Mexican politician, and his supporters held this up as proof that he was not only untainted, but untaintable.2012, Jo Tuckman, Mexico: Democracy Interrupted, page 254:

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