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Smirch

verb
1.
Smear so as to make dirty or stained.  Synonym: besmirch.
2.
Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone.  Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, sully.  "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"





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"Smirch" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the notes placed in the hollow tree; the idyllic devotion of Little Emily, dating from the morning when you saw her dress fluttering on the beam as she ran along it, lightly, above the flowing tide—(devotion that is yet tender, for, God forgive you Steerforth as I do, you could not smirch that pure heart;) the melancholy, yet sweet sorrow, with which you saw the loved and lost Little Eva borne to her grave over which the mocking-bird now sings his liquid requiem. Has it not been sweet good fortune to love Maggie Tulliver, Margot of Savoy, Dora Spenlow ...
— The Delicious Vice • Young E. Allison


Words linked to "Smirch" :   splodge, fingerprint, drag through the mud, blotch, defect, inkblot, error, mar, accuse, mistake, traduce, malign, charge, fault, badmouth, fingermark, libel, blemish, assassinate, splotch


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