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 junior Senator, forgiving the smirch, would embrace and redeem.
From Time Magazine Archive
Typical of the things which smirch the character of Judge English, as they were brought forth by Congressmen: A bootlegger sentenced by Judge English to four months in jail paid Mr. Thomas $2,500.
From Time Magazine Archive
The filth of the streets could not smirch her—outwardly.
From Superwomen by Albert Payson Terhune
