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
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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
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The junior Senator, forgiving the smirch, would embrace and redeem.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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)