smutch

Example Sentences

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She hadn’t done anything to me, and the smutch of the mud against her blue gown — the prettiest dress I ever saw.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz

He had been deeply impressed by his wife's warnings against Fanshaw—"a lump of soot, and sure to smutch you if you go near him."

From The Cost by Phillips, David Graham

As an ill coin beneath the wearing touch   Betrays by stain and smutch Its metal false—such is the sinful wight.

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

I took the glass from him and, examining it with the utmost care, I detected a smutch of yellowish paint upon it, nothing more.

From The Darrow Enigma by Severy, Melvin Linwood

O!" said they, "how sad a smutch on Our clean United Kingdom's 'scutcheon!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir