besmirch somebody’s honour/reputationDAMAGEto spoil the good opinion that people have of someone 败坏[诋毁]某人的名誉
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besmirch• Nor is it the first time that Rupert's good name has been besmirched.• And finally the bloodied body of the victim is carried out of town, a reputationbesmirched, a political careerruined.• But under cross-examination, he was accused of deliberately setting out to besmirch her character.• This is just the latest in long line of such scandals, which besmirch the country's financialinstitutions as a whole.
Originbesmirch
(1600-1700)smirch“to make dirty”((15-20 centuries)), perhaps from Old Frenchesmorcher“to torture”