Word: besmirching
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...Having become the slaves of conscienceless predatory interests they try to besmirch and belittle every public man who refuses to do as they have done-prove unworthy to bear the name of citizen of the United States and betray his country"-thus Senator Heflin of Alabama described The New York Herald, the New York Tribune and "other subsidized Republican newspapers" that expressed weariness with the conduct of Senatorial investigators...
...charges are not true, why records in the hands of General Wood were "permitted to be used to besmirch Government officials...
...three, that he knows women as well as he knows horses? ... It would be a long list, almost as long as the list of his real estate properties, and it would be a list of fair women flung away, whose names he delighted to drag in the gutter, to besmirch and defame, whenever one of them crossed his path after he had discarded her. . . . The State's Attorney and the Grand Jury of Cook County, Ill., are delving into a sink of depravity, baring the scandals of Chicago's segregated district 18 years ago, to find, as the Prosecutor believes...
...cohorts of Law and Order, in their stiff-collared sobriety, received a severe shaking-up when they heard that a newly-elected Senator had been caught smoking in the Senate chamber. What sacrilege! to besmirch the sanctity of the room where Thomas Barton lived his dying years, where the Civil, Spanish, and Great Wars were conducted, where Webster, Clay, Sumner, and other great men of the past gathered in solemn conclave; where, indeed as Dickens once described, one could see "so many honorable members with swelled faces.... caused by the quantity of tobacco they contrive to stow within the hollow...