smirching

Mind you, not sure if they want to know we smirching is either … smirch (smûrch) tr. v., smirched, smirch·ing, smirch·es.

I Smirch, u smirch, we all smirch « Squash 2006

I know, I'm be-smirching the good people of that state.

Poll: Obama Losing West Virginia Primary By More Than Two To One 2009

Better to embarrass the Rockefellers by smirching their name than to get suckered for a second time.

Embarrassed But Still Rich 2008

The city lay beneath him, the smoke from a thousand kitchens smirching the night air.

Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

"Now their cussing is reflecting back on themselves and smirching their own feathers."

Faun & Games Anthony, Piers 1997

Malesherbes, they made the young people, Giselle and Fred, walk ahead, that they might have an opportunity of expressing themselves freely, the old dowager especially, whose toothless mouth never lost an opportunity of smirching the character and the reputation of her neighbors.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

He thought that so distinguished a general would hesitate much before smirching his glory with ingratitude; but at the bottom of his heart this wound, added to the others he had received, pushed him a little farther towards his premature end.

Simon Bolivar, the Liberator Guillermo A. Sherwell

In the clash between Clay and Stuart, when Clay asks the younger man if the poster smirching Stuart's relation to Madame Alvarez is true, it is

Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis Various

I would have been shocked beyond measure at his libelous smirching of honored names and hurt as well by his slighting reference to myself had

Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

It follows that if children are always with their parents, the more unlovely side cannot fail to be perceived, and, arising out of it, must follow injury by example, harm by environment, smirching of idealism, loss of respect.

This Freedom 1925