besmear
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Was it honour and fair play to besmear my mother's name, to throw reflections upon my birth?
From The Day of Judgment by Joseph Hocking
Smirch, smirch, v.t. to besmear, dirty: to degrade in fame, dignity, &c.—n. a stain.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Dark streams of welling blood besmear Thy limbs where dust and mire adhere, Nor have I strength, weighed down by woe, Mine arms about thy form to throw.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
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 H. Bencraft Joly
The colours with which they besmear the bodies of both sexes possibly date from the same common origin.
From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench
