What's the difference between unspotted and untainted?
Unspotted
Definition:
(a.) Not spotted; free from spot or stain; especially, free from moral stain; unblemished; immaculate; as, an unspotted reputation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Van Bommel's crunch on Iniesta 12 minutes from time was just as savage, though went unspotted by referee or assistants.
Untainted
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Corruption scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right of the spectrum, as well as businesses, unions, football clubs and even the king’s sister .
(2) The son of a civil engineer, who lives in a rented apartment in a run-down district of Athens with his high-school sweetheart and two young children, Tsipras belongs to a generation untainted by power.
(3) But that does not mean we shouldn't aspire to more of the untainted kind.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ex-Guantánamo detainee Shaker Aamer tells of brutal treatment Since its 2013 inception for reviewing “forever prisoners” – those detainees deemed too dangerous to release but for whom the administration lacks sufficient untainted evidence to charge with an offense – the review board has cleared 15 detainees for release out of 21 reviewed, a pace that human rights activists and even administration officials have warned is insufficient for Obama to close Guantánamo in his final year in office.
(5) Decades of government intransigence over calls to liberalise the marijuana sector means that Jamaica is light years behind western Europe and the US in terms of establishing laboratory and research infrastructure, official distribution networks, finding merchants untainted by the criminal underworld, and an organised framework of governance.
(6) Once reliable certification and product labelling were in place, consumers could make enlightened choices to purchase goods untainted by slavery, child labour, or other forms of extreme exploitation.
(7) We need to rebuild the reputation of banks and bankers as trusted custodians of people's money, giving objective, impartial advice untainted by opportunities for personal gain, and at the same time make banking transactions as frictionless as possible.
(8) An elegant doctor, former foreign minister and distant relative of the deposed king, Rassoul is the only candidate to have a woman on his slate and even after years in government has stayed untainted by the allegations of corruption that have followed so many other officials.
(9) A university chancellor and ex-finance minister, he was a public intellectual nominated for secretary general of the UN, untainted by corruption rumours that swirl round many powerful Afghans.
(10) Another novelty, in a country where recent polls suggest suspicion both of Putin's ruling party and the opposition, is that Navalny is untainted by association with power in the 1990s.
(11) Some take a pragmatic "good enough" approach to working with and supporting officials they consider relatively untainted.
(12) The sale of shares offered investors exposure to Britain’s economic recovery through a bank untainted by the investigations into past misconduct that have hampered some of its larger rivals.
(13) Graft scandals have left few among the Spanish ruling class untainted, engulfing politicians on the left and right, as well as businesses, unions and football clubs.
(14) His original books are standing still, untainted by association, their author rich and blithe.
(15) Untainted by power, uncompromised by broken promises and not implicated in the cuts, they would still be playing their old role of party of protest.
(16) They stop short of announcing they have embraced macramé and basket weaving, but the suggestion is that the Dead Weather exists to uphold the lineage of all things untainted by modernity.
(17) See if you can dodge all my bear traps, and declare yourself untainted by tax havens.
(18) Fry has since characterised his friendship with Laurie as "untainted by any sort of schoolboy rivalry" and together the threesome went on to dominate the Footlights comedy club, winning the first Perrier award at Edinburgh in 1981.
(19) Because Clegg was, before Thursday, little known to most voters, the Lib Dems are confident he is also largely untainted.
(20) They want their MP to work hard at Westminster and in the constituency; to be independent but also loyal; to be part of a representative assembly that reflects the diversity of modern Britain, but usually a white bloke; to be full-time, untainted and talented, but also not to cost much in pay, moats or duck houses.