tarnished

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Thence it is that an unarmed Englishman was safe in the midst of their wilds. The different system pursued in Africa by the French has been productive of very different results; there the French army, I am sorry to say, is tarnished by the character of their operations.

M. (François) Guizot - Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire de mon temps (Tome 6)