smirch
Example Sentences
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"It's a smirch that never goes away.... If you dedicated yourself to serving the good, how would you cope with that?"
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2014
The Journal, as alert and sharp-eyed as a rooster, has a tabloid-moralistic habit of playing up any smirch involving a Milwaukeean.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The junior Senator, forgiving the smirch, would embrace and redeem.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Typical of the things which smirch the character of Judge English, as they were brought forth by Congressmen: A bootlegger sentenced by Judge English to four months in jail paid Mr. Thomas $2,500.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The smirch upon the regiment was likewise a smirch upon that blood and name.
From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville