The Only Use
besmirch
in
A Tale of Two Cities
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- 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.†
Chpt 1.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(besmirch as in: besmirch his reputation) to dirty or stain -- typically someone's good name and reputation
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)