besmear

Example Sentences

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To foul with a dirty liquid; to besmear.

From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by Jennings, James

Was it honour and fair play to besmear my mother's name, to throw reflections upon my birth?

From The Day of Judgment by Hocking, Joseph

And although we may besmear our liver and brain in the mire, how could we show our gratitude, even to so slight a degree as one ten-thousandth part.

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

It is because I am old and a hermit that you are trying to besmear my advice and belittle me before my lord the king.

From The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc by Rudder, Robert S.

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