| Clue | Length | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| Become dull and discoloured as silver might, for instance | 7 letters | tarnish |
| ||
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- Lose luster
- Discolour
- Shirt — an awful stain
- Rock star in hot spot
- Lose lustre
- Dirty, like a small lake?
- Discolour - sully
- Mountain lake is hard to discolour
- Dull sailor is in new hotel
- Sully
- Spoil the sailor with a broken shin
- Dull replacement in trash
- pitch shin out - dull
- Cause loss of respect
- sully, as a reputation
- become discolored, as silverware
- Besmirch
- Become dull
- Strain terribly hard and lose lustre
- Corrosion layer
- Loss of luster
- Discolor (rhymes with “varnish”)
- It's black with a silver background
- Taint
- Destroy the luster
- Besmirchment
- Discoloration
- Dirty shirt, short and tight
- stain leads to his rant, possibly
- spot, a bit like a mountain lake
- take the gloss off
- Impair reputation
- Stain
- To ruin someone's reputation, say
- Dull, sort of like pool?
- Lose lustre like small mountain lake?
- Damage, as one's reputation
- Dirty like certain lakes?
- To sully
- Soil
- Grow dull
- a new shirt got dirty
- Damage [reputation]
- Blacken
- Trash in recycling to lose shine
- dirty like a small mountain stream?
- Mountain lake, one quiet and dull
- how one might lose lustre by his rant
- Stain resembling small lake?
- Soil thrown in trash
- discolor, as silver
- Discoloration of surface of a metal
- Smear
- Pollute
- Blemish
- Asperse
- Daub
- Befoul
- Spot
- Obscure
- Slander
- Maculate
- sailor picked up in ship not half dull
- Whiten
- achromatize
- Aspersion
- attaint
- badge of infamy
- bar sinister
- Baton
- Bedaub
- Begrime
- benasty
- bend sinister
- Besmear
- besmoke
- besoil
- Bespatter
- bestain
- Black eye
- Black mark
- Blanch
- Bleach
- bloodstain
- Blot
- blotch
- blow upon
- Blur
- Brand
- broad arrow
- Call names
- Calumniate
- Censure
- champain
- Contaminate
- Corrupt
- Dab
- Damage
- Darken
- Debase
- decolor
- decolorize
- Defame
- Defile
- Degrade
- denigrate
- Dim
- Dirty
- Disapprove
- Discolor
- Disgrace
- Dishonor
- Disparage
- Disparagement
- Drain
- Drain of color
- Dull
- Embarrass
- engage in personalities
- Etiolate
- Expose
- expose to infamy
- Eyesore
- Fade
- Fleck
- Flick
- Flyspeck
- Foul
- Fume
- Gibbet
- Grime
- hang in effigy
- Harm
- heap dirt upon
- Hurt
- Impair
- Imputation
- Infect
- Injure
- Macula
- Maculation
- macule
- Mar
- Mark
- mark of Cain
- MESS
- Mess up
- muckrake
- Muddy
- Nasty
- Onus
- Pale
- ... patch
- Peroxide ......
- Pillory
- pillorying
- point champain
- Prejudice
- Reflection
- Reprimand
- Reproach
- Revile
- Ruin
- Scorch
- Sear
- Singe
- slubber
- slur
- Smirch
- ...... smoke
- Smooch
- smouch
- Smudge
- Smut
- Smutch
- Spatter
- Speck
- Speckle
- Splash
- Splatter
- Splotch
- Spoil
- Stigma
- stigmatism
- stigmatization
- Stigmatize
- Tar
- Throw mud at
- Tone down
- Vilify
- Vitiate
- Wash out
- lose lustre, discolour
- To sully, discolor
- Taint like a lake?
- Stain or sully
- ran this badly so as to lose lustre
- small lake is hard to sully
- make dull sailor break shin
- to damage someone''s reputation
- Cast a stain upon