The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TAINTS which also is the latest solution we found used in Wall Street Journal in 2008.
Gives a bad name to crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| TAINTS | 100 % | 6 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Gives a bad name to
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- give
- adviser
- bowery
- miscall
- infamous
- names
- naming
- slander
- slandering
- stick
- sticks
- denominator
Crossword Answer definitions
TAINTS noun- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish
- Tincture; hue; colour
- Infection; corruption; deprivation
- A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
- To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- To spoil (food) by contamination.
- To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
- To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
- To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
- To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- The perineum.
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