Was it through any lack of love for Dick that she allowed the foul slander to besmirch his memory, when everybody had believed him dead?
An erring son is a common thing; and an erring brother doesn't necessarily besmirch a sister's honor.
This Hem of His Robe hath ever been and remaineth unsullied, though many have, at the present time, purposed to besmirch it with their lying and unseemly calumnies.
Now the Lote-Tree beyond which there is no passing standeth laden with countless fruits before thy face; besmirch not thyself with idle fancies, as have done the people aforetime.
The fact that you are his sister has not deterred him from seeking to besmirch your honor.
They intended to hold this club over him--the price of an avowal on their part that the count was but the victim of the plot of enemies who wished to besmirch his name was to have been the papers they seek.
The two deliberately attempted to besmirch my honor, Olga," and then he told her of all that had happened in the smoking-room.
Of extraordinary purity in his mode of living, it had been difficult, before that Episode, for evil Gossip to besmirch his fair name, even in these lax and scandalous times.
Do honest men, believing in themselves, besmirch their own honor by deliberate lying?
And the first pointer I desire to give you is this--if your lips ever again besmirch the name of Beth Norvell to my knowledge, I 'll hunt you down as I would a mad dog.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "besmirch" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
