smirch

IPA: smˈɝtʃ

(archaic) Dirt, or a stain.
(figurative, archaic) A stain on somebody's reputation.
(astronomy) A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance on its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes)

(transitive, archaic) To dirty; to make dirty.
(transitive, figurative, archaic) To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander.

Examples of "smirch" in Sentences

Martin, she seemed to see the smirch left upon him by his surroundings.
Every hand but his was black with soot, and his was guiltless of the smirch of Hooniah's pot.
What a smirch on the record of Kansas University by Paula Sayles on Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 3: 14: 59 PM
I wouldn't be smirch anyone for living were they want to live thoufh - people just go down different paths is all.
He came out of the Keating Five scandal (remember?) with nary a smirch while felony convictions were falling like rain.
He was soldierly, flip, and intense about the defense of his honor, even when the smirch was well deserved or the fault his own.
She had wandered away amid the complexities and smirch and withering heats of the great world, and she had returned, simple, and clean, and wholesome.
Lewis puts this very well, Eugenics have made certain that only demi-gods will now be born: psycho-analysis that none of them shall lose or smirch his divinity: economics that they shall have to hand all that demi-gods require.