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
Nor, often, is his family, who may still regard mental illness as a shameful smirch and resist formal commitment to an institution until it is too late.
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
The junior Senator, forgiving the smirch, would embrace and redeem.
From Time Magazine Archive
God save me from the smirch and smirk of it all!”
From The Case and Exceptions Stories of Counsel and Clients by Hill, Frederick Trevor
