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besmirched

/bih-smurch/US // bɪˈsmɜrtʃ //UK // (bɪˈsmɜːtʃ) //

污秽不堪,污秽不堪的,污秽的,污秽

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to soil; tarnish; discolor.
    • : to detract from the honor or luster of: to besmirch someone's good name.

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Examples

  • He has a sense of honor and an instinct for revenge when he feels his honor has been besmirched.

  • Because the injustice and absurdity of English law had distorted and besmirched her own perfectly legitimate action.

  • Nowhere was there a cloud—a speckless day in the middle of a week that had threatened to keep the sky besmirched.

  • We know a butcher whose children are not merely dirty—they are fearfully and wonderfully besmirched by the hand of an artist.

  • The stove smoked a great deal and the white walls were soon besmirched with a layer of soot.

  • Quite close to the young lovers a heathen cut down a Christian who was carrying the besmirched head of a Muse.