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
High Priest: John Thomas Taylor you be smirch with former association, making it appear that wrongs have been committed in the name of the Legion; that birds of a feather flock together.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The junior Senator, forgiving the smirch, would embrace and redeem.
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All the House is asked to do," said Representative Graham, "and all it is bound to do is to say in effect to Judge English: 'Here are things which smirch your ermine.
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It meant almost certain ruin to himself and his prospects, but, if it came, it would be clean ruin and he would feel no smirch.
From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John