untaintable
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[edit]untaintable (comparative more untaintable, superlative most untaintable)
- 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.