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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tarnish .
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Examples
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"I don't need my name tarnished in this way, this is wrong."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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"I don't need my name tarnished in this way, this is wrong."
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Amanda Knox will have her name tarnished for decades because there will always be a lingering doubt about her innocence or guilt in the minds of some.
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Singh's ruling Congress party-led coalition government has seen its term tarnished by a string of corruption scams that have paralyzed parliament, led to the sacking of a minister, and eroded public confidence in the prime minister and his party.
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But, as the magazine Atlantic reported this week, thousands of livelihoods remain tarnished because it's tough to convince diners that local crustaceans are palatable, despite the shops festooned with signs insisting "it's safe to eat our gulf coast seafood".
BP's behaviour was shameful. But it wasn't the only one to blame for the gulf disaster Andrew Clark 2010
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Whoever feels that their reputation has been tarnished is definitely not my business.
Why girl shouldn't have same dress that other girl has Jerine 2008
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Whoever feels that their reputation has been tarnished is definitely not my business.
Archive 2008-09-01 Jerine 2008
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His name tarnished, Powell slipped away from the limelight after Bush's first term and remained largely out of sight for a number of years.
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AAR at best will be another content company with a name tarnished by bad management bankruptcy.
Sheldon Drobny: Air America Rescued? From "Search and Rescue" to "Search and Recover" 2008
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But it's just very hard to have this -- have our name tarnished by an incident like this because I know a lot of students here have the same school spirt and sense of pride that I do and it's just really, really difficult to see this happening to our school.
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