Sentence examples for erstwhile reputation from inspiring English sources

With 20/20 hindsight, we may conclude that Pierce's erstwhile reputation was as much situational as it was developmental.

Whatever the truth of the allegations against him, he had obviously suffered for them horribly.His erstwhile reputation as a Westminster bruiser Mr Mitchell is a former army officer with a forthright manner and sometimes strident views made his reduction all the more striking.

How the mighty fall, for yesterday Dave's erstwhile cheerleader declared his reputation "permanently and irrevocably damaged".

From then on, I knew of him as the entirely human "Mr. Safire" in anecdotes, which reinforced for me that the erstwhile supporter of Nixonian policies of dubious reputation was, however I differed with him there, an entirely plausible dinner companion, although the dinner never happened in actuality.

As much as Wall Street's erstwhile masters of the universe have helped to sully their own reputations, they remain less frowned upon than their handlers in Washington, DC.

This decline in Scott's reputation was accompanied by a corresponding rise in that of his erstwhile rival Shackleton, at first in the United States but eventually in Britain as well.

In their place came a number of communist officials, most prominently Włodzimierz Reczek, an erstwhile Politburo member, who took over as head of the football association despite a reputation for not liking the sport.

The retail bank, Co-op Bank, almost collapsed - and its reputation for being ethical was damaged by disclosures of the alleged drug-taking of its erstwhile chairman.

"The erstwhile Spurs 'striker'?

Forbidden Phrases: "erstwhile" (use "onetime" instead).

Erstwhile frontrunner Jeb Bush has weighed in, too.