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
The junior Senator, forgiving the smirch, would embrace and redeem.
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
Wise eyes, eyes which held a store of wholesome knowledge gleaned from the years in those silent places where her soul had grown without a shadow to smirch its purity.
From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory
