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 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
You have dared to smirch my honour in regard to women: and you have lied.
From By Right of Sword by Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) Marchmont
