Smacks
[smæks]
Examples
- Having seen the evil results we have come to detest a conscious choice of issues, to feel that it smacks of sinister plotting. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- How now, Sir Friar, replied Front-de-Boeuf, thy speech, methinks, smacks of a Saxon tongue? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- So should I,' said the stranger--'confounded luggage,--heavy smacks-- nothing to go in--odd, ain't it? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- That smacks of rights of primogeniture. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Krook almost smacks his lips with the unction of a horrible interest. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Inputed by Annie