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
High Priest: John Thomas Taylor you be smirch with former association, making it appear that wrongs have been committed in the name of the Legion; that birds of a feather flock together.
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
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
By their light is the smoke seen to be nothing in the world but a sorry smirch.
From London Impressions Etchings and Pictures in Photogravure by Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell
