tarnish, taint, mar, smear, besmirching, spoil, ruin, discredit, defile, burnish, stain, soiling, blot, mythologise, implicate, discombobulate, dishonor, vitiating, roil, reek, shortchange, harm, tamper, aspersion, blackball, pander, insult, hamper, encroach upon, cheapening, scorch, linger, irk, naysay, stoke, undo, ize, curry favor, scupper, defenestrate, squelch, cripple, rend, mangle, glamourize, upstage, smudge, disservice, impune, disgraces, fool, rehash, trashing, rouse, estrange, wallow, undermining, gussy, soft soaping, clog, gild, glom, gloss, despoiling, ruffle, bask, muckrake, nobble, ify, belittling, disrespects, enamour, ravage, slander, affront, scoundrels, bruce, kent, locke, newton, butler, camden, cardinal, cicero, cooke, crawford, darwin, duncan, franklin, hale, jefferson, jenkins, macdonald, preceptor, spenser, walpole, desultory, explorative, uncomplimentary, undiscerning, 233, abusive, accusatory, acerbic, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, adulatory, adventurous, aggadic, amphibious, anecdotal, antisemitic, aphoristic, apposite, asinine

badmouth, darken, drag through the mud, libel, malign, traduce

accuse, blob, charge, deflower, fleck, impair, spot, vitiate

asperse, besmirch, calumniate, cloud, corrupt, defame, denigrate, maculate, smirch