taintless

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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

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 Keats, John

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 Kingsley, Charles

They were taintless of dust, the proud, the peerless Immortals As they sped to their loftier throne!

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred

"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