smirched 1 of 2

past tense of smirch
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smirched

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adjective

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for smirched
Verb
  • Some former generals involved in martial law decades ago had ended up in prison and been publicly disgraced.
    Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2025
  • That until such monsters and secret policemen and fantasists of apartheid, are as abandoned and disgraced as the National Socialists, there will be war.
    Maelle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The room was filthy, prescription bottles around the room, one bed with no sheets.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 27 June 2025
  • Photograph: Chris Null As anyone who’s ever stuck a cotton swab in there knows, your ear canal is a filthy, disgusting place.
    Christopher Null, Wired News, 22 June 2025
Adjective
  • Did a packing cube come into contact with unclean surfaces, such as dirty hotel room floors or shared bathrooms?
    Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 June 2025
  • But so long as the cultural narrative persists around vaginas being unclean or smelly, companies will continue to create items deemed to cleanse them.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, in the grubby streets of Buffalo (hey, what did Buffalo do to deserve this!), Simone’s older sister Devon is getting home one morning after her second DUI.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2025
  • Now, the world is essentially the puppet of the A.I. big bad known as The Entity, which has gotten its grubby digital claws into the global psyche as well as most of the world’s nuclear arsenals.
    Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • The adorable, spotted cub is the third litter for mated pair Niran (female) and Ron (male) and is the fourth female cub to be born to Niran.
    Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • Last night Rodrigo stepped out in a spotted dress featuring a pattern that shifted in size from top to bottom.
    Marissa Muller, WWD, 18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In the opening moments of the eighth episode, Nina (Rachel Hilson) awakens chained to rusty pipes in a dingy warehouse after her cover as Russian interpreter is blown.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 4 July 2025
  • But edgy, irreverent, artistic, dingy, grimy, slightly dangerous cool.
    Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 3 July 2025
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“Smirched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smirched. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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