Let my garments be never so besmirched and bedraggled, my sister's robes must be spotless.

To think that the glorious freedom of the beautiful life over there should be so besmirched!

One tall joker so besmirched scrawled upon a wall, with his finger dipped in muddy wine lees, "Blood!"

All his Nazis are repellent and his hero so besmirched by collaboration, however unintentional, that he refuses to grant Marian any redemption.