besmear

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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

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

He sat behind his card-strewn counter holding the stencil brush like a sort of weapon ready to besmear that face of sneering assurance if its owner ventured too near.

From Pee-Wee Harris by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese

“They are gentlemen, no matter how much you may wish to besmear them with low epithets.”

From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.

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 Tench, Watkin