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单词 besmirch
释义
besmirch
verb[T]
literary
uk
/bɪˈsmɜːtʃ/us
/bɪˈsmɝːtʃ/
to saybadthings about someone toinfluenceother people'sopinionof them:
玷污；损害（名誉等）
Hisaccusationswerefalse, but theyservedto besmirch herreputation.他的指控虽毫无根据，却损害了她的名誉。
Synonym
defameformal
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slanderverb
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Damaging reputation
  • anti-defamation
  • aspersion
  • black mark
  • blacken
  • blot
  • blotyourcopybookidiom
  • dog
  • dragsomeone'sname through the mire/mudidiom
  • give a dog a bad nameidiom
  • hurl/throw/sling mud atsomeoneidiom
  • impugn
  • poison
  • show someone in a bad lightidiom
  • slander
  • slanderer
  • slanderous
  • slanderously
  • smear
  • stab
  • stain
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(Definition ofbesmirchfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbesmirch

besmirch
Secondly, he was a fellow bishop and these attacks besmirched the honour of the office which he shared with other prelates.
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If webesmircheach other long enough, the public will soon conclude that we are all frauds.
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He should have resigned rather than engage in this piece of naked class legislation which willbesmirchhis name for a long time.
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Nothing is gained by keeping him in prison, and the good name of those who are responsible for doing so is besmirched.
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Those hooligans have shamed our nation and besmirched our international reputation.
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Consider the people concerned in the last two or three tribunals whose reputations have been besmirched for ever.
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The appalling conditions in some of our kennelsbesmirchour reputation as a nation of pet lovers.
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It can help us to rid football of the hooliganism that has besmirched our national game for far too long.
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We do not want our country's name to be besmirched by the disgraceful incidents that have been witnessed over the past few years.
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It is such a shame that, often, the achievements on the pitch are diminished and besmirched by what happens off the pitch.
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You have endeavoured, by your propagandists, tobesmirchthe fair fame of our country.
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To discard our friends is tobesmirchtheir honour; to neglect their record—or to connive at such a thing—would be to dishonour ourselves.
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He certainly besmirches the name of his party and himself into the bargain, because the allegation is manifestly absurd.
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With such actions theybesmirchthe country that they profess to love.
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It is a tragedy that this great problem should have been besmirched by a speech of that character.
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