tarnished
Example Sentences
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About 30,000 saw South Korea beat Japan 1-0 to clinch men's football gold, although the occasion was tarnished somewhat when the South Korean flag failed to go up in the victory ceremony.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
I asked him if he’d seen the post Eatherly had made prior to the shooting about how his child’s mother wants to change her son’s surname because of how Chud had tarnished it.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
"It was just a lovely wholesome time of Cambridge sightseeing and pubs, and now it is tarnished by these bedbug bites," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
The financial crisis tarnished the Fed’s reputation, not just Greenspan’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
While I watched, horrified, she held them up to herself and danced around the room, admiring her reflection in the tarnished mirrors.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
