My friends and I were chatting the other day about the women of this city, and how we all pretty much agree that everyone is tainted, in some way or another. If you didn't hook up with them, your best friend, or their best friend, or their boss, or their cousin did. Its really a shame. And really, its not just this city, or the women in this city. It's every 25 to 35 year old in any major city. No? Its a small world.
So does that mean we are tainted? What defines being such old news that the only way to meet someone completely fresh and new is to move to a new city entirely, and make the rounds there. But even then that doesn't work. Similarities attract.
Damnit.
I looked up the word tainted. It doesn't have very desirable adjectives attached to it. My personal favorite highlighted. Maybe we need to come up with a new word. ... ?
taint (tānt) Pronunciation Key
v. taint·ed, taint·ing, taints
v. tr.
To affect with or as if with a disease.
To affect with decay or putrefaction; spoil. See Synonyms at contaminate.
To corrupt morally.
To affect with a tinge of something reprehensible.
v. intr.
To become affected with decay or putrefaction; spoil.
n.
A moral defect considered as a stain or spot. See Synonyms at stain.
An infecting touch, influence, or tinge.
[Partly from obsolete taynt, to color, dye (from Anglo-Norman teint, from past participle of teindre, from Latin tingere), and partly from Middle English tainten, to convict (short for atteinten, from Old French ataint, past participle of ataindre, to attain, touch upon; see attain).]
taint'less adj., taint'less·ly adv., taint'less·ness n.
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corrupt, besmirched, damaged, flyblown, spotted