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Example sentences for: tarnished

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In the three decades since the heyday of the Jewish-American novel, secularity has grown tarnished.
He has trumpeted his credentials as a faithful husband and fine father, volunteered to reporters that he no longer drinks, and attacked Clinton for being an immoral philanderer who has tarnished the dignity of the Oval Office.
[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).
Gotti has even tarnished the mob's Coppolaesque grandeur.
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.