How to Use besmirch in a Sentence

besmirch

verb

• When the humans had first started to besmirch the Earth with the things, Qumqam had thought them hideous.
  — Saladin Ahmed, Slate Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• The agency record will be besmirched and the public misled.
  — Charles Tiefer, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• Point here is not to besmirch the reputation of that 2012 Notre Dame team.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2017
• While their results have improved in their third season, the Loons still feel besmirched.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 10 July 2019
• And don’t worry about the movie retreading the same ground Johnny Depp besmirched — the film is rumored to be a prequel of some kind.
  — Ben Meyerson, RedEye Chicago, 15 June 2018
• But rumors that the film besmirched the Rajputs' honor did not die, egged on by leaders of a fringe group known as the Rajput Karni Sena.
  — Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• The enemies of a strong Israel besmirch me, calling me and my party racist.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 9 Oct. 2022
• Why does Brady besmirch himself by appearing on those airwaves in the first place?
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2018
• When Andy Herrera grabbed the besmirched the croqueta, it was smeared in sugary, white frosting.
  — Carlos Frías, miamiherald, 19 Feb. 2018
• The name of their club’s benefactor was, very clearly, being besmirched.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• Yet anyone concerned that the result might besmirch their memory of Heat can rest easy.
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 9 Aug. 2022
• How dare the Vikings fans besmirch our good names — what was left of them, anyway — with unfounded and spurious slanders.
  — Mike Newall, Philly.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• But steady results eluded him and his final seasons at both schools were besmirched with losing records.
  — Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2019
• At 9:03 Eastern, the left is going to be in the process of trying to smear, besmirch, slander, destroy the character of whoever the president picks.
  — Fox News, 10 July 2018
• The head of the Suez Canal Authority at the time dismissed his remarks as an attempt to besmirch Egypt’s reputation.
  — Rory Jones, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2021
• All signs point to a future besmirched by the likes of Pablo Escobar, compared to whom the current combatants are harmless villagers.
  — WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
• Then, 24 hours later, toothpaste decorates the basin; crumbs crunch underfoot; and grease splatters besmirch the stove.
  — Janet Sheridan, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
• Anyone who besmirches his sanctity is a heathen, a liar or—even worse—a Democrat.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 12 Feb. 2018
• The Root would never stoop so low as to besmirch the upstanding character of a great American citizen like Joe Arpaio.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 11 Jan. 2018
• Tomorrow there will be time enough for their credit to be besmirched by late payments or negative rental history.
  — Shannon Rooney, Philly.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• Australians pride themselves on their natural surroundings, and as, week after week, people emerge from a swim besmirched with ash or struggling to breathe, the sense of outrage and terror has grown.
  — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 16 Jan. 2020
• Of course, Fox News couldn't resist a dig at their rival network and its besmirched former personality.
  — Kaitlin Menza, Esquire, 1 Jan. 2018
• Shortly after Seberg’s body was found, the FBI announced that agents had attempted to besmirch her reputation in 1970.
  — Susan Kingwriter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2020
• Neville and his collaborators have done a thorough dig through Rogers’s life and work, drawn from a lifetime of archives right through his death in 2003, but there are no besmirching revelations to be found here.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2018
• Is there any beloved icon from childhood that filmmakers will not bloodily besmirch by turning into horror movies?
  — Clark Collis, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2023
• But the four-ish minutes of TV was mesmerizing, a strange piercing of the Bravo forcefield that usually manages to keep the goings-on of the real world separate from besmirching the antics of its cast.
  — Bridget Read, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2019
• For example, a few nitrogen atoms among a diamond’s millions of carbon atoms can make the rock appear yellow or brown, while blue diamonds have been besmirched with a few boron atoms.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2018
• The elegant granite structure, whose architectural character Trump had promised to preserve, was now besmirched by a gaudy, faux-gold sign bearing his name.
  — Nick Tabor, Daily Intelligencer, 1 Apr. 2018
• Eliade’s widow, in particular, loathed anyone who besmirched even the shadow of her husband’s legacy.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• The suit, fashioned as a breach of contract action, claims that association leaders, and a handful of rival attorneys in particular, conspired to besmirch his name and damage his law practice.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024