Reeves, not the most expressive of actors, manages to come through this without besmirching his reputation, though he always appears vaguely Bill-and-Teddish.
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It wasn't a very impressive dossier _ a couple of guilty pleas to disorderly conduct _ and the mayor was besmirching the reputation of a dead man.
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The counterclaim was twofold; It sought restitution of unpaid portions of his retirement package and further accused certain individuals at the Exchange of " besmirching his name ".
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When an anonymous poem besmirching Ross as an actor appeared, Murray offered twenty guineas ( ?1 ) of her own savings to anyone who could find the author.
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He has tried to ban bare torsos and talks incessantly, but quite in vain, of imposing a daily quota on the number of backpackers besmirching his gilded kingdom.
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Though it was only published in her homeland of Japan, it was immediately banned in Indonesia and indignant editorials were written here about the besmirching of the Sukarno name.
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Griffith's film, portraying Reconstruction-era blacks as savages hellbent on besmirching white virginity and virtue, converted " the nation to southern sympathy,"
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The campaign has been dominated by the Dominica Labor Party's charges that the government's selling of passports to wealthy foreigners is besmirching the island's image.
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As late as the 1970s the historian Desmond Seward was reported by the Daily Telegraph to have been threatened with horsewhipping for besmirching the reputation of Richard III in a biography.
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I also see that while he's a frigging pain in the arse, he doesn't abuse his position other than by besmirching it with his unbecoming behaviour.
