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Bespatter   Listen
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Bespatter  v. t.  (past & past part. bespattered; pres. part. bespattering)  
1.
To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.
2.
To asperse with calumny or reproach. "Whom never faction could bespatter."





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"Bespatter" Quotes from Famous Books



... church, his health at the board, and his love in the people's heart. Meantime, our old age finds little honor. Hustled have we been, till driven from town-meetings; dirty water has been cast upon our ruffles by a Whig chambermaid; John Hancock's coachman seizes every opportunity to bespatter us with mud; daily are we hooted by the unbreeched rebel brats; and narrowly, once, did our gray hairs escape the ignominy of tar and feathers. Alas! only that we cannot bear to die till the next royal governor comes over, we would fain be ...
— Old News - (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") • Nathaniel Hawthorne


Words linked to "Bespatter" :   fleck, spatter


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