smutch
Example Sentences
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Blood smutches up Treasure’s dainty nose and mouth, streaks his expelled eyeball.
From The New Yorker
She hadn’t done anything to me, and the smutch of the mud against her blue gown — the prettiest dress I ever saw.
From Literature
Within his dusky arms the wretch he caught, And with smutched lips, fuliginous and hot, Repaid the kiss which he to Christ had given.
From Project Gutenberg
In his address to the courteous reader he expresses his apprehensions that “some will smutch his labours with a scorne of his profession.”
From Project Gutenberg
Beata's words and feelings are still the dazzling white and pure fresh snow, just as they have fallen from heaven: no footprint and no step of age have yet smutched this splendor.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.