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
This record is stained by but one smirch: a year ago a painter succeeded in executing a work which the Society felt it was unable to present.
From Time Magazine Archive
The junior Senator, forgiving the smirch, would embrace and redeem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Anger, lust, suspicion, dislike, jealousy smirch not only the souls in which they lie restrained though not conquered, but others that come within the radius of their wide-reaching influence.
From With God in the World A Series of Papers by Charles H. Brent
