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tarnish

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–verb (used with object) 
1. to dull the luster (光澤) of (a metallic surface), esp. by oxidation; discolor. 
2. to diminish or destroy the purity of; stain; sully (弄髒;玷污): 

The scandal tarnished his [reputation].  

–verb (used without object) 
3. to grow dull or discolored; lose luster. 
4. to become sullied.  

–noun 
5. a tarnished coating. 
6. tarnished condition; discoloration; alteration of the luster of a metal. 
7. a stain or blemish. 

—Synonyms 
2. taint, blemish, soil.
—Antonyms 
1. brighten.


　　
"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, 

who is neither tarnish[ed] nor afraid," 

Raymond Chandler wrote in 1950's "The Simple Art of Murder," smacking the ascot  (領巾狀領帶) off the drawing-room mystery and all its crime-solving dilettante dandies. 


see mottle 

sully 
dilettante