The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Besmirch \Be*smirch"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Besmirched; p. pr.
& vb. n. Besmirching.]
To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To
dishonor; to sully. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "besmirched":
bedraggled, befouled, blackened, blotchy, darkened, defiled, dingy,
dirtied, dirty, discolored, drabbled, draggled, fouled, foxed,
foxy, fuliginous, grimy, impure, indecent, inky, maculate, muddy,
murky, smirched, smoky, smudged, smudgy, smutty, soiled, sooty,
spotted, stained, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, sullied,
tainted, tarnished, unchaste, unclean, unvirginal, unvirtuous