Tainted vs Atrocious - What's the difference?
tainted | atrocious | Related terms |
corrupted or filled with imperfections.
(taint)
Frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous.
Offensive or heinous. (rfex)
Very bad; abominable or disgusting.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
Tainted is a related term of atrocious.
As adjectives the difference between tainted and atrocious
is that tainted is corrupted or filled with imperfections while atrocious is frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous.As a verb tainted
is (taint).tainted
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Hey, get that away from me! It was bought with tainted money.