tarnished

December 28th, 2010 | 274 Entries

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274 Entries for “tarnished”

  1. A life wasted. Now are all the dreams dashed. Still, there are things to do, if only society did not tarnish its opinions. Alas, I am doomed, never to rise above the shame.

    by rous on 12.29.2010
  2. there is nothing greater to me then a life and friendship that is untarnished by hate of jealousy. that is why i will always refer to life as the greatest gift, and everything involved in it is just one more reason why they call it the present.

    by michael coffman on 12.29.2010
  3. Brushing the dirt from her suit and tossing her hair, Susana lifter her held high and marched down the expansive stairs in front of the building. Her body was hard, filled with righteous anger. Her face was set, a fire burning bright in her eyes. No one who passed her would have guessed that her reputation had been tarnished moments before.

    by Heather on 12.29.2010
  4. dreams are often tarnished by reality. there’s no getting what you want anymore just by having the skills. it seems you always have to have money or connections. when you wake up and realize that your dreams will be tarnished by someone with more money or connections than you, it just doesn’t seem fair. i don’t know much about the word tarnished.

    by Carly on 12.29.2010
  5. The kettle was tarnished but not that old. She thought it had been hidden there for maybe only a couple of years. There was something inside, something crackley. She pulled out the bundle of… hundred dollar notes – a whole roll of them!

    by christin on 12.29.2010
  6. She left the silverware out in the open to tarnish. It didn’t matter. Everything else was being boxed up around her. She was going to leave the spoons and knives behind for someone else to find. Hoping that maybe they can clean up a part of her life… being that she can’t clean up her own.

    by Kate F. on 12.29.2010
  7. My plans for life. I had goals and ambitions that now seem to be in ruins. Travel, see the world, be myself. Now it’s all mixed up. My understanding of who I wanted to be is now upside down. I woke up in South America and realized that this was never who I wanted to be. That’s it.

    by Mackenzie on 12.29.2010
  8. they let go of the old man thinking that his career was tarnished. he did a lot of bad things in his life and brought them into the workplace. they could tolerate it no longer. they couldn’t believe he would do something to their company like that. he completely ruined their reputation as a small business and it was all the old man’s fault. it was such a disaster and everything had gone to pieces.

    by lulu on 12.29.2010
  9. No sé qué mierdas significa esto, la verdad es que esto sería mucho más divertido si fuera en Español, pero bueno, estoy tan sumamente aburrido que soy capaz de perder el tiempo con esta mierda con tal de que pase un poco rápido. Creo que definitivamente voy a ir a echarme la siesta y dejarme de gilipolleces

    by pae on 12.29.2010
  10. I had warned her never the let the dishes pile up like that. Now the sink is all tarnished with gunk. I work all day, she sits at home yet I have to be the responsible one and do the dishes.

    by Radio82 on 12.29.2010
  11. killed by something or somebody, destroyed, demolished, torn into pieces,

    by Aether on 12.29.2010
  12. bloated, defiled
    maculated
    dirty

    stained
    sullied

    by deepti on 12.29.2010
  13. She took one look at the tarnished medallion and knew that Casey would have loved it. She bought it just in spite of herself.

  14. in life u sometimes get hurdled n tarnished but then later on it shines in its own way making it vintage type.

    by namrata on 12.29.2010
  15. well, it sounds like varnished. im not sure what it means. is it like destroyed, or a bit dodgy? it also reminds me of tarmac, for some reason. now i’m asking myself what this whole thing is about. it anything interesting going to happen by the end of these 60 seconds? i don’t know
    !

    by S on 12.29.2010
  16. The sterling silver ring you gave me used to shine. Now the dull hint of something formerly bright and beautiful only reminds me that you are gone.

    by tsltsl on 12.29.2010
  17. Tarnished – makes me think of old brooches, those found when my grandmother died, once gloriously silver and now a dingy grey, forgotten, unloved. I wondered if i should be proud of them.

  18. Worn. Torn. Beaten and tattered. Being physically accosted by my girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend two nights a week did not leave my love for her any more tarnished than it originally stood. In fact, my resolve to be with her was that much stronger that I began taking martial arts classes.

  19. I had a halo once, but it fell into the mud. It is tarnished sure as anything could be. I noticed, however, after I looked in the mirror I was the same person I had been before the halo fell into the mud…perhaps that Halo s never really all that shiny to begin with, or maybe, I was never all that messed up.

    by jbljbl on 12.29.2010
  20. Many were the mouths that had been inimate with this vessel- some in joy, some in sorrow, some in anger, some in peace. With all the alcohol and emotion, the pewter had become tarnished and the party would soon be over.

    by jivehoneyjive on 12.29.2010
  21. It’s time, is all, working away at what was once brilliant. Like all things, we are turned over by time and tarnished. Beauty fades. Things that were once sure, are no longer. If we are not improving, if we think we are maintaining and standing in place, we are wrong.We are always moving one way, or the other.

  22. love
    jealous

    by reena on 12.29.2010
  23. My words are tarnished with the ghosts of my past. I cannot think without my memories and I cannot write without my dreams. My present, therefore, is about my past and my future. I am therefore living not in the now but in what was and what will be.

    by recluze on 12.29.2010
  24. there’s nothing more lonely
    than a heart
    that’s lost its luster.
    only a fool
    let’s her heart become
    tarnished
    from your cruel words.

  25. It felt like they had done everything they could to save him from this. They did all the things the book said, and still, this is the way it seemed to end. He took all their advice and threw it out the window, leaving their precious reputation tarnished.

  26. you are tarnished. whatever you say now, or do, it can never be as it was. It has gone. flown away, never to return.

    How you could do it, I still don’t know. What were you thinking? How could you ever imagine I’d forgive you?

    by tkroache on 12.29.2010
  27. i am tarnished. like a bronzed pot. What the fuck is this bar at the bottom? Am I being judged here? Stumbleupon, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? I’m being timed!
    Tarnished things are prone to corrosion. Which sucks. You know what else sucks? You stumbleupone.

    by Josh on 12.29.2010
  28. She stared down at her tarnished dress. Her mother was going to kill her if she saw this. Quickly, Whitney took off her dress and hid it in the farthest corner of her closet. A purple dress quickly replaced the last one and she left the room quickly so her mother would not notice her absence at the party. That would be un-ladylike.

    by chantelle on 12.29.2010
  29. images get tarnished….metal gets tarnished….

    one can be kept away from oxygen what about the other that can’t be done without using oxygen.

    by Colour of life on 12.29.2010
  30. Tarnished is a sad little boy constantly trying to live up to expectations only to realize he can’t. He was never meant to. He was only meant to live.

    by Marsa on 12.29.2010
  31. I once saw a tarnished penny in the road. I picked it up though a single penny isn’t worth much. I pocketed it and took it home. There I set it in a small jar where I keep the coins I find. By itself, that one penny wasn’t worth much. But among his brothers, he was priceless.

    by Tyrian on 12.29.2010
  32. You said you loved me. You said your heart only had room for me. You told me that we’d grow old together.

    You lied.

    I found you, with her. You didn’t see me, but I saw everything. I saw the way you held her and whispered in her ear. You’re a no good, dirty cheater and I hope you know that our trust is forever tarnished.

    She can have you.

  33. “Your reputation,” he sneered. “Is tarnished.” He snorted.
    “As if I give a fuck. Your reputation smells like a pig’s ass.” “It
    was always so unbecoming, your way with words. Not that it matters.
    No one will be hearing you speak for a very long time.” “I wouldn’t
    count on that.”

    by sp on 12.29.2010
  34. You hold me like old memory I’ve become
    You see me as the smudged colors
    You’ve tried the polish
    You’ve used the cloth
    But never will your attempts ever heal
    My tarnished soul

  35. The sun is tarnished in the purple sky and it shines down – brass instead of gold. The streetlamps are broken beneath the purple sky and they drip oil – like dark rain into the filthy streets and back alleys.

  36. Her heart became tarnished the day he left her at the doorstep, to fight a war that should have never happened, and it could have been prevented if everyone just loved each other.

  37. our souls split like peas in a pod,
    and i lost touch with your heart.
    I’ve become colder than this December mist, and the love now scorned
    has become tarnished left to rot.
    But there is beauty in decomposition and rebirth follows.
    Maybe in time.

    by joshua manzo on 12.28.2010
  38. tarnished. thats bad it means somethings ruined. this one time i tarnished thses cookie i made for my mom then i felt bad because i wanted her to be happy again but that made her laugh

    by sam on 12.28.2010
  39. every day is a new decision
    to have an open locket or a closed one

    i don’t know the symbolism
    or why it’s part of my daily routine,

    but it must mean something, right?

  40. Destroyed. Broken. Helpless. Impurity. Void of happiness. Raped. bidbip

    by Bidbip on 12.28.2010