besmirchment

The painstaking besmirchment of New York Street was one more twist in the long saga of one of filmdom’s most famous outdoor sets.

"This latest impeachment hoax might now be in the rearview mirror but the lying, the smears, the besmirchment, the conspiracy theories, they never end," Hannity added.

"When you get to the bottom of all of this, you see corruption... lying and smears, slander, besmirchment, character assassination and outright State TV," he said.

“Dieselgate put the final besmirchment on his career,” Wolkonowicz said.

Bad Timing is safe now from such besmirchment, and Roeg’s reputation has rarely been greater, thanks in part to the adulation of younger directors such as Christopher Nolan and Danny Boyle.