Last seen in:
- The Times - Concise - Times Concise No 9004
- New York Times - Oct 20 2020
- The Times - Concise - Times2 Concise 7352 - May 30, 2017
- The Times - Concise - Times2 Concise 5805 - June 16, 2012
- The Times - Concise - Times2 Jumbo 440 - April 16, 2011
- The Times - Concise - Times2 Concise 4950 - September 21, 2009
- The Times - Concise - Times2 Jumbo 354 - September 12, 2009
Related Clues:
- God, sick at heart, returned 10
- Prosecuted about bad return, defiled
- Made dirty when lubricated with sulphur
- Wrongly use double ef in 'defiled'
- Far from pristine
- Needing laundering
- Covered with slug mud
- Full of stains
- Thus I was first to get dirty
- Consigned to the hamper, say
- Dirtied from garden work, e.g
- Made grimy
- Ready for the washer
- Stained, as a reputation
- “A court martial, under orders, has just dared to acquit a certain Esterhazy, a supreme insult to all truth and justice. And now the image of France is ____ by this filth.” (Émile Zola in J’Accuse)