| On the contrary: to confess he is made in the image of God is to admit that he smirched that image by his abominations. |
| The wallpaper was a fiery red, with huge gold figures in it, well smirched by time, and it covered all the doors. |
| With driblets of rust on her hull and at the outset of the anchor cable, she recalled the smirched bathtub of some old hotel. |
| The inner circle train from the City rushed impetuously out of a black hole and pulled up with a discordant, grinding racket in the smirched twilight of a West-End station. |
| Leach had evidently done his task with a thoroughness that Mugridge had not forgiven, for words followed and evil names involving smirched ancestries. |
| His anger with his wife and anxiety that his name should not be smirched now seemed not merely trivial but even amusing. |
