taint

“The feds usually use a ‘taint’ or ‘dirty’ team of agents that aren’t working on the case to conduct these searches.

Survivors of Pickthall's abuse read out their impact statements, in which many said their childhood had been tainted by his actions.

Mauritius is known as one of Africa's most stable democracies but this election was tainted by a phone-tapping scandal with leaked recordings of public figures posted online.

But it doesn’t taint the song at all for me.

There's this tenor of conversation that's leaked into the interview that has tainted the quality of coverage, or the ability to cover him.