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What is the adjective for tarnishing?

What's the adjective for tarnishing? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb tarnish which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

tarnished
  1. Discolored or blemished.
  2. (figuratively, by extension, of one's reputation, name or word) Sullied or dishonored.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Coins spilled into the tarnished metal dish, and they were promptly scooped up by Daryl.”
      “The dimly lit enclosure consisted of wooden walls tarnished with soot, and an earthen floor baked a dull red under the heat of iron forgings.”
      “Their material, ripped and torn, resembled the tarnished walls.”
tarnishable
  1. Capable of becoming tarnished.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Zinc is a white, lustrous, tarnishable metal which has a relatively low abundance in nature.”
      “Of course any band name is tarnishable if the quality control goes.”
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