Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of tarnish.
Examples
“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.”
“I don't need my name tarnished in this way, this is wrong.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“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.”
“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".”
The Guardian: BP's behaviour was shameful. But it wasn't the only one to blame for the gulf disaster
“Whoever feels that their reputation has been tarnished is definitely not my business.”
“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.”
“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"
“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.”
“Himself, the girls, their name tarnished in the sight of his schoolfellows and of Crum, of the men at Oxford, of — Holly!”
“Himself, the girls, their name tarnished in the sight of his schoolfellows and of Crum, of the men at Oxford, of -- Holly!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tarnished’.
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POL - scandalous (single words only)
cadre, bribery, bashing, backhander, clash, crony, coercion, coterie, chicanery, baksheesh, acolyte, backlash and 256 more...
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POL - scandalous (words and collocati...
Words and collocations associated with political scandal
blow the whistle, boo, cronyism and rigging, democratic deficit, denigrate, dirty linen, fiasco, finger pointing a..., graft, hidden account, hush money, illicit financing... and 578 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
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tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
I am : dirty
dirty, stained, grubby, tainted, speckled, tarnished, smeared, filthy, muddy, smudged, grimy, foul and 3 more...
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The Wonderer
For better writing.
emulate, intangible, comprehensible, detest, feasible, ominous, tarnished, betrothed, eccentric, folley, interloper, jaded and 1 more...
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bookwords
Words that apply to the description and condition of books
foxing, cocked, endpaper, scuffing, spine, impression, marginal, covers, browning, edition, printing, dust jacket and 44 more...
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Naresh_Gre
The path meanders through the vineyards
meander, labyrinth, Sinuous, gyrate, caron, awry, credo, banter, juxtaposition, argot, inexorable, foibles and 223 more...
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daleshipley's Words
brinksmanship, contravene, teleological, sartorial, conventicle, habiliment, tendentious, acrimonious, ontology, epistemology, impugn, dysphasia and 219 more...
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