Besmirch

Similarly, when the Palestinians falsely claimed that a massacre had taken place in Jenin, this was intended to not only besmirch the Jewish state but also to provoke a visceral emotional reaction against Israel and in support of the Palestinians.

What the fires crisis revealed is the utter ineptitude of so many ministers whose failures besmirch the good work of those who are actually qualified and lumped in with the negligentsia, the ministers not there even when they are.

But don't drag me down with you and besmirch my good name.

If you give a dog a bad name then you are going to besmirch his bony fidos in perpetuity.

Indeed, the Emerald Isle continues to irrevocably besmirch itself.

Senator Linda Reynolds is an unreliable witness using a defamation lawsuit to besmirch Brittany Higgins and David Sharaz over her political demise, a court has been told.

And while he tries to besmirch the results, as he has done with all of his anti-American maneuvers, he will fail.

It can besmirch a former vice president, a former U.S. senator, and all the media now, finally is talking about it.

The fourth is the possibility that the international community might have compelled the Buhari government to take action, barring which they would go to town to besmirch his administration (assuming Magu is guilty as charged).

The think tank has sought to play down or even besmirch those — such as China expert John Garnaut— warning that Huang and the Chinese government might be covertly meddling in Australia’s political affairs.

Why would they do that if not to further besmirch his character?

With group B, they try to isolate individuals, atomise strong groupings, and then bring out every dirty trick in the book to besmirch reputations, destroy trust between allies, attack resource bases, and sow doubt, fear and a sense of helplessness.

You used western media to besmirch my character, to destroy the black man who was fighting white supremacy.

Don’t you dare besmirch the legend that is Van Wilder-era Tara Reid.

If you do to besmirch the Red Bull name, you’re gone.

You and BMC are consistently insulting citizens and trying to besmirch a right which exposes BMC and its misdeeds,” Gandhi said.

Cook, Michael, The Koran: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, (2000) In Egypt and the rest of the Muslim world "the word secular, a label proudly worn 30 years ago, is shunned" and "used to besmirch" political foes.