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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It would be another smirch for him, and such a deep one as to obscure him and his chances there forever.

From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)