smirch
verb (used with object)
to discolor or soil; spot or smudge with or as with soot, dust, dirt, etc.
unsmirched
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a word derived from
smirch.
Example Sentences
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Looking like a saintly, unsmirched Oscar Wilde, he sang in a brassy baritone, played some fleet-fingered piano, and filled the hall with resounding delight.
From Time Magazine Archive
Crown Prince Akihito, 14, is unsmirched by the war: to Japanese, he would be a spotless symbol.
From Time Magazine Archive
In "our skinny house perpetual, where in total diminishment we will last, elemental and irreducible ... beyond the autopsy and the worm, the blood cell, protein, amino acid, the nervous atom spins and shines unsmirched."
From Time Magazine Archive
If the engineers of the country are not going to be left unsmirched to do their work, what's going to become of civilization?
From Still Jim by Honoré Morrow
Hitherto he has trusted her word that the feat can be achieved, the ray trod to its edge, yet he return unsmirched.
From Browning's Heroines by Maxwell Armfield
