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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And finally the bloodied body of the victim is carried out of town, a reputation besmirched, a political career ruined.
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But under cross-examination, he was accused of deliberately setting out to besmirch her character.
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Nor is it the first time that Rupert's good name has been besmirched.
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This is just the latest in long line of such scandals, which besmirch the country's financial institutions as a whole.