Blackguardise

• blackguard: scoundrel

• scandalise: to lead into sin

• blackguardise the whitestone: according to Islamic tradition, the Black Stone was white when it first fell from Heaven to Earth, but it was blackened by the sins of the world
  • blacken Finnegan/HCE's pure (white) character, e.g. with rumors of his sins.

• jeopardize