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
And further, just as he requires to possess this taintless conscience himself, so does he require to be assured that the like is possessed by her.
From Is Life Worth Living? by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)
That soul is taintless, clear, as the mirror-sea.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
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
"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 Afton, Effie
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