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

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

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

High Priest: John Thomas Taylor you be smirch with former association, making it appear that wrongs have been committed in the name of the Legion; that birds of a feather flock together.

From Time Magazine Archive

And when they were gone he had had to do enough to clear his skirts of any smirch of Toryism, and to implant in his own breast a settled feeling of militant Americanism.

From The Story of a New York House by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)