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Discover LudwigThe phrase "which smacks of" is a perfectly acceptable and commonly used phrase in written English.
It is generally used to refer to a situation or action that has strong undertones of something else. For example: His sudden and unexplained absence from work which smacks of cowardice.
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Brazilian fans jeered the Spanish on every field, which smacks of envy.
Toyota pays relatively low dividends and hoards cash, which smacks of inefficiency.
Don't be put off by the name, which smacks of a honeymooners-only resort.
Her weakness is her quest for a 'revolution of the spirit,' which smacks of obscurantism and sheer metaphysics".
She then reportedly ordered the destruction of videotapes of these torture sessions, which smacks of a cover-up.
President Barack Obama leaned — and Trump is leaning — toward this idea, which smacks of something like cooperation.
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It was an abject performance which smacked of complacency, inadequacy and indifference.
The whole program labored under the title "Simple Elegance," which smacked of marketing.
Yet soon after the restart they were punished for a lack of urgency which smacked of revealingly inappropriate complacency.
Safety Antrel Rolle, on the other hand, reprised a playoff guarantee which smacked of the one he issued last year around this time (and which, ultimately, proved false).
It claims Taiwan as its own and frowns on referendums, which smack of self-determination, even more than it frowns on gays.
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