Dingy bespattered walls. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : a reputation bespattered by malicious gossip. From Dictionary.com.
He glanced ruefully down at his mud-bespattered coat. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
His whole frame drenching wet, bespattered all with mud. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
And how bespattered one with compound epithets of adulation!. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
"Well, I declare!" exclaimed the mud-bespattered young fellow. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls] Reference
It was Herbert Rackliff, soaked, mud-bespattered, limp and in a temper. From Wordnik.com. [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference
Now move to strike the blight of this, our sad, blood bespattered earth. From Wordnik.com. ["To President Obama"] Reference
They must have just taken a long walk, for they are bespattered with mud. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
These grieve at your lack of faith, and flap gold-bespattered wings in unison. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
For the other loyal subjects of the king had liberally bespattered them with mud. From Wordnik.com. [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference
She has bespattered the whole letter; she slapped a wet nosegay down on the paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories] Reference
Ah, well! so our pure and beautiful friendship has been misinterpreted, bespattered!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891] Reference
The players could scarcely be recognized for the mud with which they were bespattered. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Line] Reference
She looked, he thought, as if she could see such small matters as bespattered clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Their colors are torn to pieces by shot, and literally bespattered by blood and brains. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
So I am entitled to invite the wayfarer who has bespattered me with mud to scrape it off. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
They looked dirty from head to foot, mud-bespattered, untidy, and exhausted with travelling. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Polish Tales] Reference
It is incredible that this blood-bespattered room contained no trace which could have aided us. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Black Peter.] Reference
The door opened, and the courier, in his dusty and bespattered travelling-costume, entered the room. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
At this moment a carriage drove hastily by, all mud bespattered, and lying open in defiance of the rain. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
Turning the corner was a handsome span of horses attached to a comfortable but mud-bespattered carriage. From Wordnik.com. [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference
The glasses were up, and so bespattered with the mud and rain, that it was impossible to see through them. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
Here, breathless and bespattered, he sat down upon a flat stone to recover himself, and review the situation. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
They could scarcely make their way out, and were bespattered by the snakes which darted at them on every side. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
Wielding his mace bathed in gore, and himself bespattered with fat and marrow and smeared with blood, he looked like. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
The chairs and other appointments of furniture are cream-colored, bespattered with flowers and reminiscent of Venice. From Wordnik.com. [Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes] Reference
These last were nearly new, and very clumsy, and, like the rest of her costume, travel-stained and bespattered with mud. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
His clothing was bespattered with mud and his face showed the struggle both physical and mental through which he had passed. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
And then there leaped in the rain-soaked, mud - bespattered being whose excesses had always been as unbridled as his genius. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
Exhausted, bespattered, in rags, they were dolefully crouched around their meagre green-wood fires; the poor creatures were to be pitied. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Mr. Reid's white suit, and our dresses, veils, and even faces, were a sight to behold from the liquid mud with which we were bespattered. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua] Reference
Versailles, thus stripped of royalty and left bespattered with blood, was never again to be occupied as the residence of a king of France. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
I caught them both quite easily, though the one on the table tried to hide under a butter-bespattered napkin and pretend he was not there. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
The limp bodies, with matted hair, some with holes in their heads, eyes knocked out and all bespattered with blood were a ghastly spectacle. From Wordnik.com. [The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin] Reference
I was returning from a meet one day, hot and mud-bespattered, when I met the talented musician walking feebly along in the sun with his furs on. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
Arriving at New Geneva, mud bespattered, tired and hungry, they congregated on the old wharf boat until the steamer was heard coming below the bend. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
The whole surface of the bay, bespattered by the rain, flogged by the gusts of wind that blew from all quarters, splashed, moaned, and seethed in violent agitation. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Studying his map, the colonel led the way across some disused trenches, past a lonely burial-place horribly torn and bespattered by shell fire, and up a wide desolate rise. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
At last Harriet had occasion to open the oven door, and just as she did so there was a loud explosion, and the kitchen wall opposite was bespattered with boiling animal matter. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Valuable property was scattered upon the ground by the rioters and lay in mud-bespattered heaps, to be picked up by the crowds of women and children that followed in their wake. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
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