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
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
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
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
But Lady Wychcote's view of the whole matter had left a smirch on what was so clean and fine.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
