What is another word for soiling?

Pronunciation: [sˈɔ͡ɪlɪŋ] (IPA)

Soiling refers to the act of dirtying or staining something, usually unintentionally. However, there are several other words that can be used to describe this action. Staining is a commonly used synonym for soiling, while tainting and contaminating also have similar meanings. Fouling or defiling are stronger words that suggest a more intentional or malicious act of dirtying. Besmirching or sullied are more poetic words that can be used to describe a tarnished reputation or image. Finally, smudging and smearing are synonyms that focus on the physical act of making a mark or leaving behind a residue on a surface.

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Usage examples for Soiling

If animals are not slaughtered, I would recommend soiling in all cases, if possible.
"Cattle and Cattle-breeders"
William M'Combie
To the young officers who were soiling their uniform with the grease of saws, whose only fighting was against fever and water snakes, the news of an expedition into the Vicksburg side of the river was hailed with caps in the air.
"The Crisis, Volume 7"
Winston Churchill
But maybe there'll be just some stranded young fool glad of the job and the chance of makin' a little money without soiling his hands.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard

Famous quotes with Soiling

  • I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.
    Friedrich August von Hayek
  • Very well, the starting point would be that claim of Professor Quarrey’s, which had been in the news at the beginning of the year, that the country’s greatest export was noxious gas. And who would like to stir up the fuss again? Obviously, the Canadians, cramped into a narrow band to the north of their more powerful neighbors, growing daily angrier about the dirt that drifted to them on the wind, spoiling crops, causing chest diseases and soiling laundry hung out to dry. So she’d called the magazine in Toronto, and the editor had immediately offered ten thousand dollars for three articles. Very conscious that all calls out of the country were apt to be monitored, she’d put the proposition to him in highly general terms: the risk of the Baltic going the same way as the Mediterranean, the danger of further dust-bowl like the Mekong Desert, the effects of bringing about climactic change. That was back in the news—the Russians had revised their plan to reverse the Yenisei and Ob. Moreover, there was the Danube problem, worse than the Rhine had ever been, and Welsh nationalists were sabotaging pipelines meant to carry “their” water into England, and the border war in West Pakistan had been dragging on so long most people seemed to have forgotten that it concerned a river. And so on. Almost as soon as she started digging, though, she thought she might never be able to stop. It was out of the question to cover the entire planet. Her pledged total of twelve thousand words would be exhausted by North American material alone.
    John Brunner

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