smirch

After the trial I saw Holker and asked him if he had been helping to smirch any more poor artists.

She took up one and tried to wipe it, but succeeded only in making a smirch which she could not wipe off.

His will was a scandal, and the horror did not only smirch his good name, it reached to hers.

If she were found here by a reporter, the gossip of tongue and print would smirch her benefactors.

Her first impulse was of decorum--to jerk her skirts about her in seemly fashion and be certain that no smirch adhered to them.