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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.
Gotti has even tarnished the mob's Coppolaesque grandeur.
Saddam could emerge strengthened (and America tarnished) in the eyes of the Arab world.
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.
Extreme fighting was tarnished when fighters from the other ultimate fighting operation, the now-defunct Battlecade, were arrested for violating Canadian prizefighting laws when they fought on an Indian reservation outside Montreal.