smack

To the uninitiated, this might smack of poor taste and inappropriate timing.

On the first day of shooting, Kallai and his film crew found themselves smack-dab in the middle of a war zone.

His brother Sidronio immediately took over, and the Windy City reported no shortage of smack.

In the SMU study it was found that children lasted about 10 minutes after a smack before they started misbehaving again.

Yes, Hillary Clinton talked some smack on Barack Obama to Jeff Goldberg in that interview.

Scotch shrewdness has occasionally a certain smack of mild hypocrisy, which, however, does no harm to anyone.

The little bullet-headed Jim was drafted off to the workhouse school, and from thence to a small fishing-smack.

The new smack was flying a flag at her masthead, but Jim could not read well enough to make out the inscription on the flag.

On one grey Sunday morning a pretty smack came creeping through the fleet.

The skipper of the smack invited Jim to go below, and handed him a steaming mug of tea.