Words similar to smacks

Example sentences for: smacks

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It also embodies a mentality that is not quite racist but smacks of condescension.
"It is blatantly exploitative, smacks of the 'coolie culture,' and is a terrible affront to human dignity.
That smacks of patronization to me.
For historians not to reach out smacks of elitism," he says.
Referring in an editorial Thursday to the "firestorm of anger and revulsion" that had followed the recent bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland, the paper said that this "new crackdown, so late in the day, smacks of over-reaction."