- smeared, smirched, smudged, smudgy - smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"
Antonym: clean (indirect, via dirty)
- smirch, besmirch - smear so as to make dirty or stained
--1 is one way to smear
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun smirch1
Somebody ----s something
- defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch - charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
--2 is one way to charge, accuse
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun smirch2
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody