besmear

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In all history it has been shown that he who seeks to besmear others usually leaves the greatest amount of mud on himself.

From My Attainment of the Pole by Cook, Frederick A.

She was about to besmear her face, when lady Feng pleaded: "My dear child, do let me off this time!"

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft

The reverse of besmear is to rub off; hence to obliterate means to rub out, to erase.

From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Cavins, Elmer W.

Drabble, drab′l, v.t. to besmear with mud and water.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

I lose myself in the recollections of my childhood like an old man … I do not expect anything further in life than a succession of sheets of paper to besmear with black.

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel