How to Sully Your Reputation

A solid reputation to sully something means to make it dirty, right? Yes. And we often call it this with besmirching our own reputation. We'll say besmirchingOur family name. Like, I don't want to smirk my family name. So an example could be, she sullied her reputation for being an A student when she failed the exam. Oh, no more. That's a great example. Awesome. All right. Now this last phrase, guys, is a verb, besmirch. This is band nine. The literal definition is just to make something unclean, make it dirty. But we use it a lot more often, idiom