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

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

Crown Prince Akihito, 14, is unsmirched by the war: to Japanese, he would be a spotless symbol.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had pawned my last winter's furs, but my character seemed quite clean and unsmirched.

From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Prouty, Olive Higgins

And a great march, when a march meant the chance of a fight, didn't always come in the way of a young soldier, even one whose conduct was unsmirched by any stain.

From A Soldier of the Legion by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)