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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 Jones, Raymond F.