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Example sentences for: smacking

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This was, after all, a man renowned for his retiring propriety, a man who sedulously barred anything smacking of the salacious--from lingerie ads to four-letter words--from the magazine he stewarded from 1952 until 1987, five years before his death.
(The 17th-century sense of sophistication was closer to smacking of sophistry.)
It is both unrealistic and smacking of zealotry.