besmirch

Steele doesn’t besmirch the data that punishes his Redhawks, but he also says “there’s something to winning.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

Mr Yusuf said that he had never met Gill, and all he knew of him was what he had read in the newspapers, saying his actions should not "besmirch" Reform UK.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2025

As it turns out, Murray’s story doesn’t besmirch Candy’s memory at all.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2025

“And it would really besmirch the reputation of the Academies, which I felt strongly about defending.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

"Not bloody likely. The Long Summer will come again before that one would besmirch his precious honor."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

"Behaviour like that, whether it's at an Old Firm match or any other football match, besmirches that, and it should absolutely be seen as unacceptable."

From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2022

“All the evidence of the fancy suits really is irrelevant and besmirches the defendant.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2018

Mud besmirches his van’s tiny, neat living space.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2018

It is unfortunate that this Times article indirectly besmirches the Yankees.

From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2017

Prince Napoleon blames M. Taine for quoting "eight times" 'Bourrienne's Memoirs,' and then, letting his feelings loose, he takes advantage of the occasion and cruelly besmirches Bourrienne's name.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

“New banks didn’t even call themselves banks and instead used the expression caisses, meaning ‘deposits,’ so besmirched was the banking industry’s reputation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

But our own humanity has been besmirched, damaged, undermined by such silences, which, in many ways, represent the most powerful propaganda of all.

From Salon ● May 31, 2023

Their besmirched clothes, blistered feet and cracked lips attested to the ordeal of the nine-day trek, but they still danced and jumped to celebrate their accomplishment.

From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission, had wrongly besmirched Hindenburg’s “well-deserved reputation for thoroughness, precision and accuracy.”

From Reuters ● Feb. 2, 2023

Was there any kind of filth with which he had not besmirched himself, any sin and folly which he had not committed, any stain upon his soul for which he alone had not been responsible?

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse

Schultz saw others in the opera community rally around the attackers, and was criticized for besmirching the reputation of prominent gay men.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

The businesses declared themselves outraged by the government besmirching their reputation.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2023

Like, say, besmirching an evening that featured Black women making Oscars history, with Regina Hall and Wanda Sykes joining Amy Schumer as the first trio of women to host the show.

From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2022

By besmirching both her character and her work, the lawsuit stripped away all of her armor at once.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2020

I am reminded of words used by one of my Swiss friends: “As soon as soldiers must get their fighting force from suggestions of puerile besmirching of the enemy, then war indeed becomes intolerably base.”

From The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship by Harold W. (Harold Williams) Picton