SMIRCH is a worthless fellow.

Banish SMIRCH.

Don't let SMIRCH even look at your footprints on the beach.

They must not get abroad to smirch me.

"How vile is he that would, with lying tongue, smirch the spotless honour of any maid.

Her first impulse was of decorumto jerk her skirts about her in seemly fashion and be certain that no smirch adhered to them.

Enough of the smirch will stick to prevent that.

V. be black &c adj.; render black &c adj.. blacken, infuscate^, denigrate; blot, blotch; smutch^; smirch; darken &c 421.

It is grievous to me, dear Bobus, a man of notorious gallantry, to find that the ladies, after consenting to smirch their rosy fingers with Erebean ink, are among the first who are discarded.

Every hand but his was black with soot, and his was guiltless of the smirch of Hooniah's pot.

To shun the vile, ignoble crowd, Preferring death to smirch and shame!

It was a foul deed to seek to shame me in this ugly fashion, and to smirch the honour of the Queen.

It's a weapon that no self-respecting man should smirch his hands with.

"Bearing aloft a stainless shield That none may smirch without remorse, This management declines to yield To crude displays of force; Yet, since it seems the general wish, Mock-cutlets will be five-pence less per dish.

But don Andrés, who smiled scornfully when accused of taking advantage of the chief's influence to drive hard bargains to his own advantage, was not the man to be trifled with if gossip ventured to smirch his friendship with the señora.

You must not go to the polls, Willie, Never go to the polls, They're dark and dreadful places Where many lose their souls; They smirch, degrade and coarsen, Terrible things they do To quiet, elderly women

" She appraised this, and said with entire irrelevance: "The world has smirched you, somehow.

Thus I not only feel sore when he abuses a character whom I love, but I feel ashamed when he decries one whom I hate, for I am tempted to feel that I must have grossly misunderstood him; and even when he rapturously and unctuously belauds some figure that I admire, I feel my admiration to be smirched and tarnished.

Unwillingly, with an imagination that fain would reject the stain, he has injured, he has insulted the love that has now come to him, the most precious thing on earth, because he has not known how to do otherwise; because all the associations of passion have been to him degraded, smirched, treated frivolously in the past.

Trussed up he sat, the mockery of himself; And when upon the wan green of his eye I marked the gathering lustre of a tear, Thought I myself must weep, until I caught A grey, smug smile of satisfaction smirch

Although he had an enmity of long standing against the Scipios, he would not endure what was taking place but spoke in defence of Africanus, who was accused while absent, and exerted himself to prevent any smirch from attaching to that leader; and he prevented the imprisonment of Asiaticus.

And that because you smirch everything you touch.

You shan't smirch your precious memories....

His neighbouring, willy-nilly, Must smirch the Bee, the Lily, Or stain the snow-white flag.

I mean the purity of the upper spiritual atmosphere in which she habitually dwelt; the absolute disseverance of her moral as well as her intellectual nature from all those lower thoughts as well as lower passions which smirch the human soul.