Use "besmirch" in a sentence
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1. would stand idly by and let you besmirch the good
2. would hate to besmirch Tony Reilly’s legacy or Lydia’s reputation for that matter
3. Bill: At this point, the gentle reader is probably impatiently waiting to have two simple questions answered: Who in the hell is DD? and why is DD causing Michael so much trouble? I cannot reveal DD's true identity for fear of legal repercussions because she is very much still alive and still actively ministering to the unfortunates on Texas death row and I could not with good conscience besmirch her reputation based solely on Michael's unsubstantiated allegations
4. She didn’t have to leave town! She’d return, make an official complaint, he’d be found guilty of assault, the photos would be impounded before they could besmirch her reputation, and she would be avenged!
5. How dare you besmirch my honour as a gentleman
6. Consultants for both what you want or should want to become and the form of its online presentation; defenders to search and scrub the web for any defamatory bytes of information that might besmirch your image and then vigilantly maintain your perfected reputation; lawyers to sue those who defame or copyright infringe upon your image; and counselors to aid you in adapting to and dealing with virtual relationships and screened feelings
7. and lips besmirch the purity of his love
1. “And know that knowledge as besmirched by ignorance (tamas)
2. ‘I find it offensive to have my good name besmirched, my professional colleagues questioned about my movements; it invites speculation and gossip of the crudest kind
3. It became an unbearable mark of besmirched pride on these scum; that they had not managed to corrupt this entire city
4. Those who had been greedy with the staves of the cask, had acquired a tigerish smear about the mouth; and one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a nightcap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees--BLOOD
5. Master Lenehan at this made return that he had heard of those nefarious deeds and how, as he heard hereof counted, he had besmirched the lily virtue of a confiding female which was corruption of minors and they all intershowed it too, waxing merry and toasting to his fathership
6. First of all, the word had no sense for cultured minds, to whom the narrowness of every belief is odious; and secondly, in connection with the everlasting troubles of this unhappy country it was hopelessly besmirched; it had been the cry of dark barbarism, the cloak of lawlessness, of crimes, of rapacity, of simple thieving
7. Kalganov looked as though he had been besmirched with dirt
1. constantly besmirching my name with his antics and the Henry sisters still talking smack
2. Every reactionary republican and arrogant redneck began screaming how insulted they were at this besmirching of American bravery
3. Melville-Briggs's, sexist response irritated him—wouldn’t Llewellyn be pleased about that? But with a ma who commanded respect and three bolshie sisters, Rafferty had learned the unwisdom of besmirching the female of the species; like the Black Widow spider, they had a tendency to bite
4. They love besmirching anyone who is purer and better than they are
