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v. - Spot, splash, or soil.

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Usage examples (32)
  • Verb (used with object) : a reputation bespattered by malicious gossip
  • So when the king is a horseback he is sure to be the dirtiest person of the company, and they that make their court best are such as bespatter him most.
  • Lord Stanley are wont to bespatter and heap dirt on each other's heads in their legislative squabbles!
  • Every time he comes in at me from in front earth and sand from his bullets bespatter me right and left.
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