1. to make dirty or stained
2. to damage someone’s reputation or good name

1. a dirty mark or stain
2. damage to one’s reputation

Examples

• The mechanic’s hands were smirched with grease and oil.
• Don’t smirch your white shirt with that muddy water.
• The scandal threatened to smirch the politician’s reputation.
• False accusations can smirch an innocent person’s character.
• There was a dark smirch on the wall where the candle had burned.
• He tried to remove every smirch from his record before applying for the job.
• The newspaper article left a permanent smirch on her good name.