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UK
/bɪsmˈɜːtʃ/
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VERB
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charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
The journalists have defamed me!
The article in the paper sullied my reputation - smear so as to make dirty or stained
How To Use besmirch In A Sentence
- A speech-impeded or misunderstood/misspelled besmirchment of character “Yo mama, she a slub.” Regretsy – I Don’t
- My family's name has been besmirched by your victory over me, but your trickery can't hope to save you now.
- Seeing the potential of its software besmirching the Symantec name irreparably, Symantec's CEO surged forward with a new plan: re-write its security software to make it the best in the industry, so as to super-strengthen its stranglehold on the summit of sales supremacy while swiftly swinging its way back into the good books of consumers. ITWire - Latest Headlines
- I have tried to keep my reputation - to fight for my reputation - while it's been besmirched, and I have tried to do it in a way that brings honor to the House.
- The body of King Richard III was treated with much indignity. Trussed naked over a horse and besmirched with mud, it was borne in parade to Leicester, a sad spectacle.
- Oh, yes, doncha all know that there are one set of rules for Socialist Community Organizers and another for folksy, lipstick-besmirched hawkey mawms? Think Progress » MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Mocks Sarah Palin By Writing ‘Cheat Sheet’ On Her Hand
- Original or diluent will directly drops or gush in besmirch, wait 1-2 minutes, with soft cloth to wipe the scrub brush or, and then rinse clean can.
- In the year since banker became a bad word, Leonard Abess brought some goodwill — and some good p.r. — to the besmirched financial sector.
- Her name will, quite rightly, be besmirched and sullied until all eternity.
- Not once but several times has the libertine Neptune scandalously seduced punts and dinghies from the respectable precincts of Brammo Bay, and having philandered with them for a while, cynically abandoned them with a bump on the mainland beach, and only once has he sent a punt in return — a poor, soiled, tar-besmirched, disorderly waif that was reported to the police and reluctantly claimed. The Confessions of a Beachcomber