smacks in English

noun
1
a sharp slap or blow, typically one given with the palm of the hand.
she gave Mark a smack across the face
2
a flavor or taste of.
anything with even a modest smack of hops dries the palate
verb
1
strike (someone or something), typically with the palm of the hand and as a punishment.
Jessica smacked his face quite hard

Use "smacks" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "smacks" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "smacks", or refer to the context using the word "smacks" in the English Dictionary.

1. Her behaviour smacks of hypocrisy.

2. His politeness smacks of Condescension

3. His politeness smacks of condescension.

4. It smacks of yellow journalism....

5. Smacks a mean ivory, eh, Rainsford?

6. 21 This arrangement smacks of dishonest dealing.

7. In my opinion, this suggestion smacks of pessimism.

8. After all, the former smacks of flunkeyism, the latter sentimental Adulation.

9. Like many stories about him, it smacks of exaggeration.

10. The poacher , like the smuggler, smacks too strongly of the brigand.

11. Anything that smacks of the occult needs to be kept at a distance.

12. We deplore anything that looks or smacks of discrimination, harassment or improper conduct.

13. "Don't Think You're The First", smacks of tasty spaghetti western with a small dollop of surfy sauce.

14. Critics are already saying it smacks of McCarthyism, a reference to the anti-communist hearings back in the 1950s.

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16. Alleged Capitol rioters getting released on bail smacks of racial bias and hypocrisy More often than not, my primarily Black and brown clients are kept in custody.

17. The West Country dialect smacks as much of the farmyard as the patois of the French peasant, or the even more deliberate drawl of the Texan cattleman.

18. Then it is better refer her as a Chairwoman or better still, chairperson, which is gender neutral as chairman smacks of male chauvinism, as if no woman can become eligible to hold the chair in a corporation.

19. ‘Lies, fraud, Chicanery and self indulgence are endemic in society today - or am I being presumptuous?’ ‘But all these examples are nothing more than political Chicanery.’ ‘If this report is true, it is an insult to the intelligence of Irish farmers and smacks of the worst kind of political and bureaucratic Chicanery.’

20. ‘Lies, fraud, Chicanery and self indulgence are endemic in society today - or am I being presumptuous?’ ‘But all these examples are nothing more than political Chicanery.’ ‘If this report is true, it is an insult to the intelligence of Irish farmers and smacks of the worst kind of political and bureaucratic Chicanery.’

21. The Antinomian impulse was one which maintained that good works were not necessary for salvation, that God delights in all Christians in the same way, that God does not see sin in the believer, that the moral law is no longer binding for Christians, that law and gospel are diametrically opposed in every way, that to strive after holiness smacks