bespatter
Americanverb (used with object)
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to soil by spattering; splash with water, dirt, etc.
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to slander or libel.
a reputation bespattered by malicious gossip.
verb
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to splash all over, as with dirty water
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to defile; slander; besmirch
Etymology
Origin of bespatter
Example Sentences
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I know they are pleased to bespatter me at all their little dirty levees.
From Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series by William Black
He was a proud man, who must hate standing by helplessly, holding the supreme office in Orvieto, watching the two great families bespatter his city with blood.
From The Saracen: The Holy War by Robert Shea
Can't some poetic swell-beau Re-christen old Crum Elbow And each prosaic bluff, Bold Breakneck gently flatter, And Dunderberg bespatter, With euphony and stuff!
From Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature by Various
For the future you may besnuff and bespatter your coat as much as you please, for all the trouble I shall ever take.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
A regular army of the "System's" votaries must have been out working like Trojans to stop my work, to discredit me, to bespatter me with its dirt.
From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson
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