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adjective

Definition of smirchednext
as in stained

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smirched

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verb

past tense of smirch
1
as in blackened
to make dirty their clothes were smirched by dust from the trail

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2
as in humiliated
to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyes this scandal will forever smirch the name of a once-great family

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smirched
  1. filthy
  2. disgraced
  3. unclean
  4. grubby
  5. spotted
  6. dingy
Adjective
  • Keepin’ Tabs Hey speaking of Google, the company also announced some good news for all of us filthy browser tab hoarders.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2024
  • At the same time, this is a movie about a woman who begins craving raw meat, grows a few extra nipples, and wakes up every morning filthy from running around in the dirt all night.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2024
Definition of filthy
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  • Many familiar newsmen were pushed out of their jobs and disgraced for behaving badly — Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Mark Halperin, Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes and so on.
    Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024
  • For this band of once-precocious kids now slipping into middle-age, disgraced ’80s art queen Mary Boone evokes the tarnished dreams of Manhattan transplants and a bag dropped onto the train track must be let go no matter what.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of disgraced
Adjective
  • Raw or unclean data is not optimal in business since misleading data leads to wrong decisions.
    Cristian Randieri, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The letter chronicled some of the health care horrors of Gaza: Infant formula mixed with unclean water fed to malnourished babies.
    Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2024
Definition of unclean
Adjective
  • Heaven help the grubby finger that even attempts to graze their wings.
    Goth Shakira, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The actors aren’t grubby or sweaty, and their clothes are neatly pressed.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2024
Definition of grubby
Adjective
  • This past weekend, the spotted beagle Snoopy, star of the Peanuts comics and cartoons, found himself at the center of a political whirlwind.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2024
  • According to the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, the spotted lanternfly can cause damage, including oozing sap, wilting, leaf curling, and dieback to trees, crops, vines, and other plants.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of spotted
Adjective
  • After several months of traipsing through dingy slush and teetering precariously across unshoveled Denver sidewalks, my thermal Blundstone Chelsea boots look wrecked.
    Beth Rankin, The Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Appearing in the opening scene in a dingy bar holding photographs of the young and old Fukase, the creature silently asserts himself as a central player in the story that’s about to unfold.
    Richard Kuipers, Variety, 3 Nov. 2024
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