Stainless \Stain"less\, a.
Free from stain; immaculate. --Shak.
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The very care he took to keep his name
Stainless, with some was evidence of shame. --Crabbe.
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Syn: Blameless; spotless; faultless. See Blameless.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stainless
adj : of reputation; "his unsullied name"; "an untarnished
reputation" [syn: unstained, unsullied, untainted,
untarnished]
WordNet (r) 2.0
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "stainless":
Christian, absolute, beyond all praise, blameless, bleached,
blotless, bright, chaste, clean, cleanly, creditable, dainty,
decent, defectless, dirt-free, erect, estimable, ethical, fair,
fastidious, faultless, flawless, fresh, full of integrity, good,
high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest,
honorable, ideal, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible,
indefective, infallible, innocent, inviolate, irreproachable, just,
just right, kosher, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, manly,
modest, moral, noble, nonpolluted, of cleanly habits, peerless,
perfect, principled, pure, pure in heart, purehearted, reputable,
respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, ritually pure,
sexually innocent, shiny, sinless, smut-free, smutless, snowy,
spotless, sterling, sweet, tahar, taintless, true-dealing,
true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited,
truehearted, tubbed, unadulterated, unbesmirched, unblemished,
unblotted, uncontaminated, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled,
unfaultable, unimpeachable, unmixed, unmuddied, unpolluted,
unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied,
untainted, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, virtuous,
well-scrubbed, well-washed, white, whitened, worthy, yeomanly
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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