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 junior Senator, forgiving the smirch, would embrace and redeem.
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
All the House is asked to do," said Representative Graham, "and all it is bound to do is to say in effect to Judge English: 'Here are things which smirch your ermine.
From Time Magazine Archive
America should read "The Death of Charlemagne" which attempts to glorify a black smirch on American arms and tradition.
From Self-Determining Haiti Four articles reprinted from The Nation embodying a report of an investigation made for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. by James Weldon Johnson
