Word: tarnish
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cookie-cutter holiday entertainment can turn into a recipe for disaster. Well-respected celebs can blatantly showcase their unbridled capitalistic greed and thinly-veiled exploitation of fan base, or, as in the case of Will Farell’s Elf, gamble with projects that may completely flop and/or irreparably tarnish their image...
Some thought he would tarnish his legacy by coming back. Those people violated the cardinal rule of sports history—Never Doubt Michael Jordan...
...Feminism is a worthwhile advocacy agenda, given society’s history of male dominance. Unfortunately, in any group, a few reckless loudmouths can tarnish the entire movement’s image. Lecturer in Women’s Studies Diane L. Rosenfeld is one of those individuals (News, “Ruined Snow Penis Stimulates Debate...
...Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, John Putnam extols the value of his name, telling others that he can’t let dishonesty tarnish his stellar reputation. In the crucible of academic pressure that exists at Harvard, however, many students put their names on the line every semester in the interest of making the grade. Many would argue that they don’t even have the chance to keep their shreds of honesty, as Harvard doesn’t always do a good job making it clear what acts count as an academic transgression...
...Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, John Putnam extols the value of his name, telling others that he can’t let dishonesty tarnish his stellar reputation. In the crucible of academic pressure that exists at Harvard, however, many students put their names on the line every semester in the interest of making the grade. Many would argue that they don’t even have the chance to keep their shreds of honesty, as Harvard doesn’t always do a good job making it clear what acts count as an academic transgression...