smirch 1 of 2

smirch

2 of 2

verb

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for smirch
Noun
  • Adding in a few drops of dish soap to the solution can help lift the stains and water spots for spotless windows.
    Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 12 July 2025
  • Original price: $94.99 A Bissel Little Green cleaner tackles spills and pet stains while also removing pet hair, dander and dust from your furniture and carpets.
    Christopher Murray may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
Verb
  • Some dishes don’t quite live up to their big ideas: a pot of mussels steamed with chickpeas and spicy ’nduja arrived a little on the dry side, and a Caesar salad, topped with crunchy bits of anchovy, the lettuce blackened on the grill, was blobbily overdressed.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 6 July 2025
  • Detectives described bruises all over Gray's body, face, and neck along with severe swelling to her face and eyes, which were blackened.
    Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Verb
  • Over 24 cycles, the show humiliated hundreds of young, naïve women (and, briefly, men) in the name of entertainment.
    Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 9 July 2025
  • Soldatov said that along this path was the 2008 war in Georgia, which showed the Russian army would not be humiliated anymore.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
Noun
  • Some argued that, given the presumptive unethical taint of such collections, human remains should be buried or otherwise respectfully disposed of.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • That realization tends to color behavior, and taints the findings.
    Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 17 June 2025
Verb
  • Some were prosthetic buttocks, but others were people’s own buttocks, but in various states, like dirtied down and with partial covering.
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 1 July 2025
  • Crow-Armstrong has dirtied up the White Sox in six of those games, batting .458 with eight RBIs and a homer.
    Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025
Verb
  • What used to be fringe denialism has evolved into a sophisticated, and increasingly profitable, campaign to discredit science, undermine regulation, and politicize sustainability.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • The Chinese Communist Party has waged a decades-long campaign to discredit the current Dalai Lama and erase his presence from Tibetan life, while tightening restrictions on religious and cultural practices.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • This blot on our state suggests the need for a constitutional amendment to make the office safely independent of the governor.
    Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 June 2025
  • In Tunisia, President Kais Saied has notoriously imprisoned political opponents, destroying the judiciary, and diminished parliament to an ink blot.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Their reputations were besmirched.
    The Editors, National Review, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Images illustrating the reality versus carefully edited Instagram selfies have somewhat besmirched Santorini’s romantic reputation of late.
    Helen Iatrou, AFAR Media, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Smirch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smirch. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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