Synonyms for tarnished
tar·nished

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1. tarnished

   Synonyms:
   adulterated, defiled, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, immodest, impure, indecent, indelicate, lewd, mixed, obscene, polluted, stained, sullied, tainted, unchaste, unclean

   Antonyms:
   absolute, chaste, classic, classical, clean, clear, continent, genuine, guileless, guiltless, holy, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, mere, perfect, pure, real, sheer, simple, spotless, stainless, true, unadulterated, unblemished, uncorrupted, undefiled, unmingled, unmixed, unpolluted, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, upright, virtuous

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1. List of paraphrases for "tarnished":

   tainted, marred, smudged, stained, tempered

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1. Mike Reese:

   Officers certainly have a right to have and express their opinions but not using an official badge of the Portland Police Bureau, the badge represents all members of the organization, past and present, and is an important symbol in our community that must not be tarnished.

2. Ayisha Zia:

   Any impact from lost room revenue because of damaged property, as well as tarnished reputation, should not be material for the parent company.

3. Alison Ettel:

   It has tarnished my name, but also the company's name, they are actually going out there and bullying people, and telling people to pull our things off the shelf and to boycott, even if they are not even customers at that location. They are getting harassed.

4. Nancy Pelosi:

   The White House has made fools of their allies in the House of Representatives in the way they've handled this, they cook up some intelligence. They bring the chairman of the committee -- a very distinguished position which he has tarnished -- they use him as a tool to tell him what they have cooked up, now you go tell the President what we have cooked up and try to represent to the American people that this is legitimate intelligence.

5. Tom Frieden:

   Pfizer and Moderna have made fundamental missteps that must be corrected or their reputation for this work will be irreparably tarnished, and, more importantly, millions of lives will be put at risk. First, Pfizer and Moderna have focused on selling expensive doses to rich countries and have done nothing or next-to-nothing to scale up production to meet the global need.