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

Newsreaders were shocked last week to read testimony which, if true, would smirch Scripps-Howard with one of the lowest tricks in the newspaper business�padding circulation figures.

From Time Magazine Archive

The junior Senator, forgiving the smirch, would embrace and redeem.

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

To the southwest, almost in the line of the Susquehanna, he observed a black cloud resting like a smirch of dirt against a clear, blue sky.

From The Wilderness Fugitives by Ellis, Edward Sylvester