tarnished

The issue is that Molyneux has had his personal brand tarnished for awhile (Fable + Project Milo), but he still received reputation and respect.

Their reputation has been tarnished by autotools, but in that case you're using autotools as your build system, not make.

Otherwise intermediate sites could just make up new identities once old ones became tarnished.

His legacy was tarnished and now he is just remembered as a puppet PM.

Its brand is as tarnished (if not more so) by this sort of crap.

They may in the end have permanently tarnished Merkel's and Schäuble's political legacies.

And through all of this, the Lenovo name will continue to be tarnished.

It's been a long time coming but the mental image I had of Reddit was tarnished.

But their legacies are (maybe forever) tarnished because of it.

John Kerry's war record being tarnished was done openly, publicly, and without any involvement of the NSA (which would have been useless to the cause anyway).

The brand isn't being tarnished - it's being sacrificed wholesale for dollars, with the singular goal of extracting as many dollars as possible before it dies.

In practice though, this involved a large international media empire shutting down a tarnished brand, then promptly relaunching an equivalent service using one of their stronger brands.

It's interesting that the big law firms like DLA Piper[0] who backed him pro bono and conducted "extensive due diligence" on his claims walked away without even much of a tarnished reputation.

They're popular because they've found things that appeal to a large number of people, and because they represent the culture of the United States, which is still has (if somewhat tarnished) the appeal of anyone, from any background, being able to "make it".

We see what you're trying to do--the problem is that the general "think of the one terrible case" has been tarnished rather heavily in the last decades by people talking about "well, what if it stopped 9/11", or "well, what if it stopped the OKC bombing" and so on and so forth.

And whatever we might think of using words like “hologram” for this magic pixie-dust product, the odds are reasonable that something will ship to the backers, so Kickstarter’s reputation is less likely to be tarnished by a VC-backed campaign than by a truly independent project where they don’t have the budget to hire an experienced team.