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smirch

/smurch/US // smɜrtʃ //UK // (smɜːtʃ) //

冷笑,冷笑话,傻笑,哼哼唧唧

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to discolor or soil; spot or smudge with or as with soot, dust, dirt, etc.
    • : to sully or tarnish; disgrace; discredit.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a dirty mark or smear, as of soot, dust, dirt, etc.
    • : a stain or blot, as on reputation.

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Examples

  • After the trial I saw Holker and asked him if he had been helping to smirch any more poor artists.

  • She took up one and tried to wipe it, but succeeded only in making a smirch which she could not wipe off.

  • His will was a scandal, and the horror did not only smirch his good name, it reached to hers.

  • If she were found here by a reporter, the gossip of tongue and print would smirch her benefactors.

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