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
Edward Graeb, called in from the Juvenile Bureau: "We do not intend to smirch the reputations of the high-school girls, most of whom are of prominent families."
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor, often, is his family, who may still regard mental illness as a shameful smirch and resist formal commitment to an institution until it is too late.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"And I, for one," spoke, for the first time, the silent gray-haired member of the committee, "refuse to smirch my hands with the task."
From Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California by Thomas Dixon
