Word: besmirches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several days later Senator Bingham rose lankily to his full height and spoke in self-defense. He shouted angry charges at the lobby committee, accused it of prejudice, dirty politics, a determination to besmirch his reputation. He insisted his motives were pure, that he had done nothing improper. Rather lamely he accused Senator Elaine, a lobby-hunter, of carrying a capitol policeman (federal paid) to Wisconsin last summer, using him as a chauffeur. This Senator Elaine vehemently denied. Other Senators arose, attacked Bingham without mercy. Senator Norris broadly hinted at a resolution of censure...
...where Woodrow Wilson's policies were concerned, was incapable of having a generous thought. It is regrettable, indeed, that at the end of his so distinguished a career a man should have put his great talents to so base a use as attempting, by insinuation and innuendo, to besmirch the reputation of one who, at a critical hour, single-handed and alone, sought to apply to the ills of the world the healing balm of peace...
...great newspaper in search of prestige and influence has sought to besmirch me. They have invaded the sanctity and privacy of my home and sought to enlist the efforts of criminals and those of low character. The people of Kansas will resent such attempts...
...been made based on them do not in any way upset my equanimity. I have a philosophy of my own about such matters which has long stood me in good stead. So long as our conscience is clear, so long as we know that we have done nothing to besmirch our honor, our honor is safe. Nothing that any one else can say can touch it and therefore nothing that others can say or do need really trouble us greatly, provided we really have a clear conscience...
...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...