Taint

Taint may refer to:

• a wine fault, such as cork taint, ladybird taint or phenolic taint, producing undesirable odors or tastes in bottled wine; especially spoilage that can only be detected after opening the bottle
• Contamination, the presence of a minor and unwanted element (a contaminant)
• Infection, the colonization of a host organism by parasites
• Perineum, the region of the human anatomy between the genitals and the anus
• Taint (legal), the quality of illegally obtained court evidence
• Taint checking, a feature of some programming languages that prevents unauthorized users from remotely executing commands on a computer
• Tint (archaic)
• as a proper name
  • The Taint (or Doctor Who and the Taint), a novel written by Michael Collier and based on the British television series Doctor Who
  • Taint (band), a sludge-metal band from Wales