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At the outbreak of war, Canada’s reputation for welcoming immigrants and refugees from all over the world was tarnished by the blocking of Communists and Jews from Hitler’s Germany.
"We will show that politics, after a time of tarnished ideals, can be higher and better.
Saddam could emerge strengthened (and America tarnished) in the eyes of the Arab world.
Gotti has even tarnished the mob's Coppolaesque grandeur.
[XIX, 3, 1] and offer for the archives Jacqueline Adams's They're both tarnished with the same brush, uttered on a recent CBS Nightly News (February 1993).