smirch

There has also been plenty of creepy behavior, culminating in the news that Donald Trump, Ken Starr and Alan Dershowitz have joined together in a pervy, hypocritical cabal to argue that Trump did not smirch the Constitution.

"It's a smirch that never goes away.... If you dedicated yourself to serving the good, how would you cope with that?"

Dorothy had loved a coronet with such fervor that she had been able to abandon everything that could smirch it.

The filth of the streets could not smirch her—outwardly.

To smirch or soil; to disoolor; to obscure.