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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of smutch.

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Examples

  • She drew on her pipe and cocked her feet back on their heels so that her smutched soles took the full benefit of the fire.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • Still he wallowed and rolled up and down himself in the mire and dirt — he blurred and sullied his nose with filth — he blotted and smutched his face with any kind of scurvy stuff — he trod down his shoes in the heel — at the flies he did oftentimes yawn, and ran very heartily after the butterflies, the empire whereof belonged to his father.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Still he wallowed and rolled up and down himself in the mire and dirt — he blurred and sullied his nose with filth — he blotted and smutched his face with any kind of scurvy stuff — he trod down his shoes in the heel — at the flies he did oftentimes yawn, and ran very heartily after the butterflies, the empire whereof belonged to his father.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • She drew on her pipe and cocked her feet back on their heels so that her smutched soles took the full benefit of the fire.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • The bright colors of their festival costumes, red and yellow, blue and white and green, were dulled and smutched a bit by the smokes and fires that had plagued the city daily.

    Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • What buffoonery that Vulcan is not guilty of, while one with his polt-foot, another with his smutched muzzle, another with his impertinencies, he makes sport for the rest of the gods?

    In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958

  • With a bump against the door, Clesta sidled into the room awestruck and smutched, bearing a tray.

    The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Harriet Stark

  • Never send an editor a penciled, smutched, and disorderly MS., with a note saying, "I just dashed this off last night and send it right on."

    Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story Charles Raymond Barrett

  • "You have smutched the signature; -- however, it doesn't matter," and he exhibited the paper to the Judge and Jury.

    The Darrow Enigma Melvin Linwood Severy

  • He wore his coarsest and oldest clothes; his thick, strong arms were bared above the elbows, and his hardened hands were smutched with tar and nail rust.

    Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

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