smirch
verb (used with object)
to discolor or soil; spot or smudge with or as with soot, dust, dirt, etc.
smirchless
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a word derived from
smirch.
Example Sentences
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My idea was to make liars and thieves of nearly half a hundred smirchless men and women who had never in their lives uttered a lie or stolen a penny.
From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain
My idea was to make liars and thieves of nearly half a hundred smirchless men and women who had never in their lives uttered a lie or stolen a penny.
From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Mark Twain
Indeed, if monuments were always given in India for high achievements, duty straitly performed, and smirchless records, the landscape would be monotonous with them.
From Following the Equator, Part 6 by Mark Twain
Justice would wish him smirchless as her steel, But stands with steadfast eyes and unbowed head Silent—betwixt the Living and the Dead!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 22, 1890 by Various
