The Collaborative International Dictionary
Besmirch \Be*smirch"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besmirched; p. pr.
& vb. n. Besmirching.]
To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To
dishonor; to sully.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of besmirch English)
Usage examples of "besmirching".
Had they sent him in without a sword Sir Guy might still have slain him without besmirching his knightly honor, for such were the laws of the Great Tourney.
You shall see them unfolding their loathsome and dark spectacles before you their battlefields reeking with blood, their swamps filled with corpses besmirching your path with mud, and playing fantastic tricks on you without its causing you the slightest degree of alarm or fear, or depressing you as it did before you knew the cause of all these things because now you apprehend them in their wretched malignity and dare to face them and, if need be, duly to chastise them.
And close by, between long rows of signboards, monstrously drawn and painted in glaring colors, rushed the trains, besmirching everything with their smoke.
There are hackers today who fiercely and publicly resist any besmirching of the noble title of hacker.
She feared that one way or another he would, ultimately, bring shame, ruin or both upon their family, forever besmirching the name of Balfour.
Try to dig dirt on the young lady, though besmirching someone's character isn't the most tasteful of chores.
We can toast one another's good if brief health a few times, and you won't be besmirching our dearly beloved lady's reputation by spending the night here without a chaperone.