0 If someone has an untarnished reputation, etc., it has not been spoiled or damaged, and people's opinion of the person continues to be good:
From the very beginning, she has been an aloof, mysterious figure, untarnished by scandal.
She has many critics in Britain, but her image in America is almost untarnished.
It appears he has an untarnished record: there are no disciplinary actions by any hospital, federal agency or state medical board.
Under the principal's guiding hand, the reputation of the school was untarnished.
He denied that his own untarnished playing reputation at the club could suffer as a result of Glasgow's murky football rivalry.
Observation of untarnished gold could account for the poet’s choice of this metal for the divine armour.
Clean the jewellery according to these instructions and you’ll find shiny, untarnished silver underneath.
To present an image of jazz as pure, authentic folk music, which should remain untarnished by formal institutions would be sorely misleading.
Equally, although respectability has been wrongly regarded as petit bourgeois, it does not deserve an untarnished halo.
