to smack

Examples

• All

• This is like the whole thing smacks of dishonesty.

• Oh, this smacks of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

  Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)

• Well, listen, this smacks of a lie.

  Team Coco

• Keep Smith away from anything that smacks of politics.

  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

• Is there anything about this place that smacks of personality to you?

  The Big Kahuna (1999)

• Doesn't this all smack of extreme desperation?

  Bad Company (2002)

• To Jack, such behavior smacked of a kind of bribery.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Such a preoccupation smacks of organizations that look mainly inward and have forgotten their reason for being.

  Academic text (1992)

• So what I was just going to say was this smacks of one of two things, intentional deception or complete disorganization.

• A zealous capitalist, Edgerly's "utopian" design also smacks of real-estate speculation.

  Academic text (2004)

Synonyms

T

to taste

vsto smack

578 1.0

To have a flavor like sweet or bitter

suggests a strong distinctive flavor often seen as undesirable

Compounds

F

fishing smack

• UK

7.0

A boat used to catch fish that has a tank to keep the catch alive

How Noticeable

to reek of

48 6.3

to smack

26 8.1

to taste

578 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology