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Example sentences for: tarnished

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Saddam could emerge strengthened (and America tarnished) in the eyes of the Arab world.
It is a sorry tale from which he emerges a diminished, tarnished figure."
"We will show that politics, after a time of tarnished ideals, can be higher and better.
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.
The editorial endorses a "just war" against Iraq but worries that Clinton is too tarnished to lead it.