smirch

/smɜːrtʃ/
verb
  1. 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.
  2. 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
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
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