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
There were moments in which she was fully conscious that, despite her rank, she had not endured unsmirched close contact with the rampant commonness of London.
From The Woman with the Fan by Robert Smythe Hichens
O Monarch, if thy soul repent The promise and thy free consent, How wilt thou in the world maintain Thy fame for truth unsmirched with stain?
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
