smirch
/smɜːrtʃ/
verb
- To make something dirty or stained.
- Grease from the engine smirched his hands.
- The mud smirched her new white dress.
- The rain smirched the clean windows.
- To harm the good reputation of someone or something; to dishonor.
- The scandal smirched the company's image.
- The false rumors smirched his name in the community.
- They tried to smirch her character with lies.
Antonyms
noun
- A dirty mark or stain.
- There was a smirch of ink on the paper.
- The tablecloth had a smirch from the spilled coffee.
- He wiped the smirch off the mirror.
- A stain on someone's reputation; a disgrace.
- The politician tried to remove the smirch from his past.
- The accusation left a smirch on his career.
- No smirch of dishonesty has ever touched her.