Taint or tainted may refer to:

Impurities Contamination, the presence of a minor and unwanted constituent Wine fault, an unpleasant characteristic of wine Infection, an invasion of an organism's body by pathogenic agents Taint (legal), the quality of illegally obtained court evidence Taint checking, a computer language security feature

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 "Tainted" (song), a 2002 song by Slum Village featuring Dwele

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