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Example sentences for: tarnished

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But within seconds, Clinton tarnished his apology by lapsing into excuses, self-justifications, and blame-shifting.
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.
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.
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."