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UNTARNISHED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does untarnished mean?
• UNTARNISHED (adjective)
The adjective UNTARNISHED has 1 sense:
1. (of reputation) free from blemishes
Familiarity information: UNTARNISHED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of reputation) free from blemishes
Synonyms:
stainless; unstained; unsullied; untainted; untarnished
Context example:
an untarnished reputation
Similar:
unblemished; unmarred; unmutilated (free from physical or moral spots or stains)
Context examples
Any personal suffering seemed to me to be better than to bring public shame upon a family which has held an untarnished record through so many centuries.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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