Sentence examples for quite tarnished from inspiring English sources

It's a tad banged up and is looking quite tarnished.

"The image of the P.K.K. in Turkey is quite tarnished, because for years it has been killing people indiscriminately," said Nuzhet Kandemir, a retired diplomat who until last year was Turkey's ambassador to the United States.

The political right, quite as tarnished by scandal as the left, asks why it took so long to end the abuses of the special funds, and hints that Mr Strauss-Kahn has benefited from politically-inspired leniency to which the left ripostes that his trouble arose from politically-inspired enmity.

But unfortunately, in the case of Mr. Shire's entry, the moth-eaten "My History of Marriage," names can also be... not quite unmade, but tarnished a bit.

He surely is not the first baseball player to use steroids (the game's reputation in this respect was tarnished quite a while ago), but that is no reason to ignore his wrongdoing.

"Here's a guy who had a stellar reputation… and quite frankly that reputation was tarnished when he went before the UN and laid out the case.

And, quite likely, many have had the moment tarnished by someone actively choosing to cough at the moment that they were in the greatest danger of being touched by the magic of this music.

This last appears to be quite true, even though Rafsanjani's reputation remains tarnished.

"I think it is quite disgraceful that this officer's reputation was tarnished in a way that can never be repaired," Mr. Fidell said on Monday.

Commenting on Letters to Monica (2010) Graeme Richardson states that the collection went "some way towards the restoration of Larkin's tarnished image...reveal ing) Larkin as not quite the sinister, black-hearted near-rapist everyone thought it was OK to abuse in the 90s".

I am quite concerned that myself and Team GB are going to be tarnished by this negativity despite the fact TUEs are completely legal.