Besmirched

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Besmirch \Be*smirch"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Besmirched}; p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Besmirching}.]
     To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To
     dishonor; to sully. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  besmirched
       adj : especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged
             reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished
             reputation"; "inherited a spotted name" [syn: {damaged},
              {flyblown}, {spotted}, {stained}, {sullied}, {tainted},
              {tarnished}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  42 Moby Thesaurus words for "besmirched":
     bedraggled, befouled, blackened, blotchy, darkened, defiled, dingy,
     dirtied, dirty, discolored, drabbled, draggled, fouled, foxed,
     foxy, fuliginous, grimy, impure, indecent, inky, maculate, muddy,
     murky, smirched, smoky, smudged, smudgy, smutty, soiled, sooty,
     spotted, stained, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, sullied,
     tainted, tarnished, unchaste, unclean, unvirginal, unvirtuous