Taint or tainted may refer to:
Impurities
- Contamination, the presence of a minor and unwanted element (a contaminant)
- a wine fault, such as cork taint, ladybird taint, or phenolic taint, producing undesirable odors or tastes in bottled wine
- Infection, the colonization of a host organism by parasites
- 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
Titles
- The Taint (novel) (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
- The Taint (film), a 1915 American silent film
- Tainted (film), a 1987 American film
Other uses
- Taint (anatomy), colloquial name for the space between the anus and genitals; the perineum
- Tint, an archaic form, referring to a color mixed with white
- Tainted kernel, when proprietary modules are loaded into Linux