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besmirch
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besmirch as in:  besmirch his reputation

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  • We're going to make this a business deal, gentlemen, so that your dubious records won't be further besmirched.†  (source)
  • I've besmirched my name.†  (source)
  • He accused her of taking her pleasure with Clara while he was away, and of besmirching the names of the children, the honor of the house, and the memory of their dear departed mother, and told her he was sick and tired of her evil tricks and that he was throwing her out of the house.†  (source)
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  • Occasional rents in the besmirched sky allowed pale bars of light to strike the ground, where they remained, like pillars of translucent glass, until they were truncated by the shifting clouds.†  (source)
  • You will not besmirch my family.†  (source)
  • "It may be," he replied, "because I will not encounter the dishonour that besmirches the husband of a faithless woman.†  (source)
  • This examination room, for example, is a disgrace and besmirchment upon our practice.†  (source)
  • Roughspun tents and miserable hovels made of mud and scrap wood besmirched the pristine white marble.†  (source)
  • Anna, I don't know what shocks me more in all this: that someone preys upon their desperate fellows, or that they besmirch the memory of Anys Gowdie in passing themselves off as her shade, or that people here are so desperate and credulous that they listen to these midnight whisperings and pay their last mite for these worthless amulets.†  (source)
  • Tereza did not believe that Tomas meant to leave her for the woman, but the happiness of their two years in the country now seemed besmirched by lies.†  (source)
  • My unclean hands and lips besmirch the purity of his love.†  (source)
  • For those of us who want to improve the United States and keep it the greatest nation in the world, we must be aware of the true heroes who have made the country great as well as the villains who have besmirched it.†  (source)
  • I besmirch the milk of thy duty.†  (source)
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