besmirched

• Sore besmirched, on his jackass, follows Content The record, entitled SUNDAY THOUGHTS, which is dated some five days earlier is naive and most characteristic, touched with the phantastic moralities and suggestions already indicated in every sentence; and rises to the fine climax in this respect at the close A plague o' these Sundays! —  Robert Louis Stevenson, A Record, An Estimate, A Memorial
• Nothing's ever happened here It brought back to Jury his own consoling words to Farraday that nothing ever happened in Stratford We try to keep things out of the papers Well, I should certainly think the Diamond Hill Guest House shouldn't have to have its good name besmirched It certainly wouldn't do my business any good. —  dirty duck.htm
• For who else would take responsibility—leave his wife forever, on a one-way trip to right the worst wrong imaginable—for dealing with a Blood Poet who has besmirched the name of the Mazhin a'Stansa Corisma? —  Aeon One
• They have besmirched the good name of Islam and of the ancient Iranian civilization. —  "news" via big sleep in Google Reader
• I just hate to see your great screen name besmirched by comparison ... —  Latest Articles

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