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Example sentences for: tarnished

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It gave him useful fame, but it tarnished him as someone who had helped O.J. get away with murder.
In her long-expected announcement , Dole likened Bush to Ronald Reagan and said he would repair the presidency's tarnished image.
Gotti has even tarnished the mob's Coppolaesque grandeur: the piece mocks his car (a minivan), his attire (mock turtlenecks), and choice of repast (country-fried steak).
The NYT reports that New York University, contending that its name is being tarnished, has filed a federal lawsuit against the operators of a sexually explicit Web site that features a secret camera purportedly spying on scantily- but NYU-logoed-clad women students romping in their dormitory.