smacked

No eyebrows raised, no jaws dropped, no gobs smacked.

It was an overreaction that smacked of fear and pandering.

He smacked a fist in his palm, to emphasize the point.

This was the height of the Cold War, and anything that smacked of communism was taboo, especially in Los Angeles, whose politics were dominated by anti-communist conservatives.

And you sort of like seeing the big, bad City of Angels getting smacked around with promises of even worse things to come.