Besmirch is a verb meaning to sully or soil.
“You have besmirched my reputation and ruined my business!” exclaimed Lord Rivers while the devious advisor to the king smirked.
Category: Word of the Day
April 26, 2014
Macadam is a noun meaning a roadway or pavement of small closely packed broken stone.
The wool merchant was disheartened when his rickety cart broke an axle on the macadam on the way to the fair in Kingsbridge.
April 25, 2014
Picayune is an adjective describing something of little value or account, small, trifling, petty, carping, or prejudiced.
Or it can be a noun meaning a coin equal to half a Spanish real, or any small coin in terms of value, or an insignificant person or thing.
The king’s chief counselor ignored the message from the queen to the king dismissing it as a picayune domestic matter not worth the parchment it was written on.
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