tar
noun
any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
had tarred
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past perfectof tar.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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But she said critics had tarred her for something far more nefarious.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2024
All had tarred themselves with a disgrace that is likely to dog them through their lives.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Todd's successor the party picked Sir Edgar Whitehead, 53, the Federation's Minister in Washington, an Oxford-educated moderate whom no one had tarred with the label of "too liberal."
From Time Magazine Archive
He had been smug in front of Baker after the first demonstration, but now he wondered how much he had been covered by the same brush that had tarred Baker.
From The Great Gray Plague by Raymond F. Jones
