The Only Use of
besmirch
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- 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
Definition:
to attack the good name and reputation of someone