Dictionary Definition
besmirch
Verb
1 charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack
the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have
defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation" [syn:
defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully]
2 smear so as to make dirty or stained [syn:
smirch]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
Translations
To make dirty; to soil
- German: beschmutzen
To tarnish; to debase
- German: beschmutzen
Extensive Definition
- violating accepted standards or rules: cheating
- considered morally corrupt: dishonesty, ethics
- considered obscene or indecent: see decency, lascivious, obscenity
- Dirty, a song by Korn from their album Issues
- Dirty (album), an album by Sonic Youth
- Dirty (group), a rap duo from Alabama
- "Dirrty", a song by Christina Aguilera
- "Dirty" (song), a song by Lemon Interrupt
- Dirty Records, a record label
- Dirty (film), a 2004 crime-drama
- Dirty data, a computing term
- Dirty cache, a computing term
- Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
- dirty bomb
- dirty dancing
- dirty word: see profanity
besmirch in Italian: Dirty
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
attaint, bedarken, bedaub, besmear, besmoke, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, bestain, black, blacken, blackwash, blot, blotch, blur, brand, call names, charcoal, cork, darken, daub, defile, denigrate, dinge, dirty, discolor, ebonize, engage in
personalities, heap dirt upon, ink, mark, melanize, muckrake, murk, nigrify, oversmoke, revile, scorch, sear, shade, shadow, singe, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smoke, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soot, spot, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tar, tarnish, throw mud at, vilify