taintless
Americanadjective
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Dishes had to go in the washer and come out taintless and doing this swiftly and competently meant I was acknowledged as a human being by colleagues I wanted to be like.
From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2017
"Peace shall with joys attendant For ever here abide, While reverently and faithfully You guard its taintless tide."
From Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland
And from sky and lake and forest came an air inimitably virginal, the cold and taintless air of unviolated Nature, infinitely pure and strong and vital.
From Masterman and Son by Dawson, W. J. (William James)
The union of these two mystics in spirit and deed was as taintless as that of two angels in heaven.
From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville
The silver stars may purely shine, The waters taintless flow: But they who kneel at woman's shrine Breathe on it as they bow.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
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