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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of besmirch.
Examples
“He was, therefore, out of Parliament and out of office; estranged from multitudes of old friends; his name besmirched by some of the most damaging accusations that can be brought against a man's heart and honor.”
“Things like getting chucked into a DPRK gulag - along with the rest of your family members - or having your exclusive privileges denied you, your name besmirched by the regime-controlled media, or perhaps even being killed in cold blood for having the audacity of losing on the world's stage. full story ยป”
“Paris had her name besmirched in the international press for something she had little to do with.”
“I know my reputation will be smeared, my name besmirched and my bananas bruised - and not just the old, black ones languishing on the counter amid a cloud of fruit flies.”
“Mostly I feel bad for the house, a fine-looking old mansion that should not have had its good name besmirched by this production.”
“I just hate to see your great screen name besmirched by comparison ...”
“Mr. Oei was forced to exhaust his savings to defend himself, had his reputation and good name besmirched, and perhaps worst of all, had his confidence in American fair play eroded.”
“I'm annoyed to see a great thinker's name besmirched but you guys still have to run a website here.”
“The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Federation (ZACF) said its reputation had been "besmirched" by the remarks of council spokesman Kaizer Mohau.”
“Let me try to apologize to some of the people that I have inadvertently "besmirched" so to speak in the last few days.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘besmirched’.
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quotato's Words
prospicience, appoggiatura, actually, thrum, nisus, univocal, eschatology, concupiscible, penury, psychedelic, vapid, braggadocio and 107 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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madamepsychosis's Words
mollify, salubrious, prandial, coup de grace, ineluctable, metempsychosis, pedant, conatus, oeuvre, laconic, solipsism, vapid and 265 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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pcofdirt's Words
besmirched, befuddled, ai, sanguineous, antidisestablishm..., ablation, ascertain, ascerbic, aardvark, begot, benign, buggery and 118 more...
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Daily Show and Colbert Musings
They put the fake in fake news, and they're still more real than the real news. Go figure!
catastrofuck, gee whiz, looting, correspondent, precisely, reprisal, numbnuts, callous, terrestrial, capper, report, sociopath and 114 more...
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Michele's Words
effluvia, fetid, turgid, besmirched, torpor, spanner, dodgy, fistula, bombastic, swarthy, hirsute, palpable and 63 more...
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cozycowgirl's Words
perseverate, personification, wiggle, luscious, yar, onomatopoeia, tangecize, juncture, lyrical, hindsight, identify, usurp and 42 more...
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tiger's words
oscillate, serendipitous, wabi, oxymoron, brobdingnagian, quixotic, callipygian, schadenfreude, serendipity, spleen, surreptitious, perspicacious and 46 more...
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wordhouse
some faves
cavalier, flicker, transcendence, superlative, monolith, bifurcate, facilitate, apparition, remnants, province, paragon, circle and 63 more...
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abpend's Words
undulating, cantankerous, enamoured, spurious, contrapuntal, masticate, gargantuan, apropos, pithy, boondoggle, papaphobia, resplendent and 40 more...
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"be-" all that you can be
It's self-explanatory, I think...
bemused, bespectacled, benighted, bewigged, bewildered, befuddled, berated, betwixt, belittled, bemuddled, bedevilled, begirdled and 25 more...
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limited use but wonderful anyway
besmirched, omphaloskepsis, razbliuto, perendinate, absquatulate, boustrophedonic, anfractuosity, cachinnatory, fimbriated, floccinaucinihili..., gallimaufry, ignivomous and 5 more...
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Autumn's list
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