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Example sentences for: smacks

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For historians not to reach out smacks of elitism," he says.
Brilliant as they are at avoiding anything that smacks of principle, the Blairites now have a second chamber with almost a hundred "chosen" hereditary peers, and the remainder a bunch of party appointees.
Anything that looks as if it might get in a partner's mouth and eyes or slap his face is bad; any material that caresses the thighs is better than a fabric that smacks them.
But, as the letter itself makes clear, one does not write “Thank you for publishing my letter” in such correspondence, and the approach still smacks to me of smarminess.
All this smacks of Hitlerism, of course.