besmear

The earth didn't besmear it as a heavier clayey soil might have done.

One cannot besmear a Web site with suntan-lotioned fingers, nor lodge sand between its pages.

First the F.B.I. is used to besmear the travel office employees.

The newspaper reported that the book's publication was "evidence of an evil intention to besmear the image of Islam in the United States."

This was a nefarious attempt to besmear French politicians and companies for inflating prices so as to pay a bribe to the Iraqi government.

Weiss cannot resist the urge to besmear D'Amato with the taint of the underworld.

William Kennedy, who tried to cover up a patronage grab by using the F.B.I. to besmear innocent travel office staffers, quit under a cloud.

The broad ax enters with a crashing sound, And cleaves the chin with one continued wound; Warm blood, and mingled brains, besmear his arms around.

A year ago, during the Senate frenzy to besmear Judge Robert Bork as a dangerous bigot, Ms. Greene overstepped.

Not since Joe McCarthy railed against "twenty years of treason" by Democrats had the T-word been used by a senator to besmear political opponents.

Confirmation hearings can besmear the reputations of good people: Clement Haynsworth, Robert Bork, John Tower and Clarence Thomas come to mind.

Media controlled by Boris Berezovsky, the Putin sponsor reportedly denied entry to Davos by Swiss authorities, tout the new Napoleon to the skies and besmear opponents.

Beni says: " You besmear your body with sandalwood paste and put tulsi leaves on your forehead, but in the hand of your heart you have a sharp dagger.

Arab apologists are busily trying to besmear the victim: Mr. Bazoft had a prison record in his early 20's, was stateless, confessed to spying under the always-gentle Iraqi interrogation, etc.

As her new boss, Max orders Vera to kill the story of his venality and to join forces with Sweetwater to besmear "Flings" and its cast of a thousand aspersions.

Because they cannot compete with his intellectual energy, and cannot effectively counter restraints on government that reflect the will of the majority, House Democrats are waging a guerrilla campaign to discredit and besmear the Speaker.

Judge Robert Bork, a jurist of uncommon intellect and strong views about judicial restraint, has become the target of ideologues and pressure groups out to besmear his character and distort his record.

Our youth their naked limbs besmear with oil, And exercise the wrastlers' noble toil; Pleas'd to have sail'd so long before the wind, And left so many Grecian towns behind.

Or these instructions gracing a packet of convenience food from Italy: "Besmear a backing pan, previously buttered with a good tomato sauce, and, after, dispose the cannelloni, lightly distanced between them in a only couch."

While oral argument takes place in Court today, across the street the Congress is embroiled in the ethics of using illegal eavesdropping to besmear the defense against charges of ethical violations by the Speaker of the House.

On the Gold Coast a leopard hunter who has killed his victim is carried round the town behind the body of the leopard; he may not speak, must besmear himself so as to look like a leopard and imitate its movements.

Hillary Clinton, as a favor to Hollywood friends, told her staff to get rid of the people who ran the White House Travel Office; to justify the spoils system, the F.B.I. and Justice Department were used to besmear and harass the innocent targets.

This Vodou ceremony was a ceremonial impulsion to the liberation of thousands of abjectly enslaved peoples under French, mostly Christian, tyranny: and as such has been perverted over the following decades to besmear a righteous liberty-struggle as formed of wicked means .