Definition of "bespatter" []

• To spatter with or as if with mud: "a thoughtful, anti-activist judge being bespattered with charges of racism, sexism, hypocrisy and dishonesty” ( William Safire). (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "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."
• "Conveniency for him to bespatter her with Scandal."
• "Every time he comes in at me from in front earth and sand from his bullets bespatter me right and left."