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

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

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

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

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 Meynell, Alice Christiana Thompson