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Example sentences for: tarnish

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Skeptics worried that poor products or service from unknown merchants could tarnish Amazon's reputation ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer ).
Impeachment won't tarnish Republican chances in 2000: If voters don't care about the scandal now, the argument goes, they certainly won't care in two years time.
Saga , Boutros-Ghali asserts that the wily secretary of state sought to unseat him "with determination, letting pass no opportunity to demolish my authority and tarnish my image all the while showing a serene face, wearing a friendly smile and repeating expressions of friendships and admiration through the poutiest ruby lips I have ever beheld.
Surely he's willing to tarnish the legacy he cares so much about in order to save his presidency.
But Webster's role in this context was only to tarnish the image of the Tories and brighten that of the Whigs.