Smirch

Word SMIRCH
Character 6
Hyphenation smirch
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Smirch"

What do we mean by smirch?

To soil, stain, or dirty with or as if with a smearing agent. transitive verb

To dishonor; defame. transitive verb

Something, such as a blot, smear, or stain, that smirches. noun

To stain; smear; soil; smutch; besmirch.

Figuratively, to degrade; reduce in honor, dignity, fame, repute, or the like: as, to smirch one's own or another's reputation.

A soiling mark or smear; a darkening stain; a smutch. noun

To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully. transitive verb

A smutch; a dirty stain. noun

To dirty; to make dirty. verb

Smear so as to make dirty or stained verb

A blemish made by dirt noun

Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone verb

An act that brings discredit to the person who does it noun

Dirt, or a stain.

A stain on somebody's reputation.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Smirch

The word "smirch" in example sentences

She had wandered away amid the complexities and smirch and withering heats of the great world, and she had returned, simple, and clean, and wholesome. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Lewis puts this very well, Eugenics have made certain that only demi-gods will now be born: psycho-analysis that none of them shall lose or smirch his divinity: economics that they shall have to hand all that demi-gods require. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Every hand but his was black with soot, and his was guiltless of the smirch of Hooniah's pot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Martin, she seemed to see the smirch left upon him by his surroundings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was soldierly, flip, and intense about the defense of his honor, even when the smirch was well deserved or the fault his own. ❋ MAX WATMAN (2010)

He came out of the Keating Five scandal (remember?) with nary a smirch while felony convictions were falling like rain. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I wouldn't be smirch anyone for living were they want to live thoufh - people just go down different paths is all. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What a smirch on the record of Kansas University by Paula Sayles on Thursday, May 7, 2009 at 3: 14: 59 PM ❋ Unknown (2009)

So shall no foulness, no dark smirch be seen, if laughter shown thy teeth their lips between. ❋ Apuleius (2008)

Mind you, not sure if they want to know we smirching is either … smirch (smûrch) tr. v., smirched, smirch·ing, smirch·es. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I might have guessed that she would try to smirch her own name, and the boys through her, if she had the chance. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Down the long avenue of his man-about-town experience, bursting, as it were, through a smirch of doubtful amours, there stalked to him a memory of his youth. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She was wiser than she had been a week ago: she refused to hand her past over to him in order that he might smirch it with his thoughts. ❋ Unknown (2003)

For her, he would reach into his grab bag of tricks and produce the best Lucius Cornelius Sulla of them all, free from artifice, innocent of smut and smirch and smarm. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)

From that very moment the secret of my unhappiness and, what is of greater moment, the smirch on my honor was half revealed to another, and after the first words we exchanged here it was wholly revealed. ❋ Various (N/A)

She took up one and tried to wipe it, but succeeded only in making a smirch which she could not wipe off. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

It was a foul deed to seek to shame me in this ugly fashion, and to smirch the honour of the Queen. ❋ Marie De France (N/A)

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