blackening Synonyms

darkening maligning smearing smear smudging soiling tarnishing speckling staining stigmatizing sledging slandering slander plastering poisoning reproaching scandalizing sear shading shadowing shaming skewering stippling strewing studding melanize Blackbeard denigrating muckraking nigrify personal attack drag through the mire become black grow black melanise pummelling sullying sully tarring tarnish traducing vilification vilifying drag through the mud character assassination slanderous attack abashing blacken blackener blemishing