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
But know before you go, that the celestial milk which fell from Here's bosom, bleaching the plant which it touched to everlasting whiteness, was not more taintless than the soul of Theon's daughter.'
From Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley
The heavenly joys flitted before thee, faint, and rare, and taintless.
From The Poetry Of Robert Browning by Stopford A. (Stopford Augustus) Brooke
"It is not worthy to be spoken in the air of God's own taintless purity."
From Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems by Effie Afton
Saving when, with freshening lave, Thou dipp'st them in the taintless wave; Like twin water lillies, born In the coolness of the morn.
From Poems 1817 by John Keats
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