Sentence examples for whiff of wrongdoing from inspiring English sources

If there is even a whiff of wrongdoing, an entire generation will recoil from politics.

Then federal prosecutors issued subpoenas and examined mountains of records before shrugging and advising that they had found no whiff of wrongdoing.

The anti-doping authorities had grown so trigger-happy, the media so blood-thirsty, and the public so jaded, he said, that at the slightest whiff of wrongdoing, a cyclist stood no chance of receiving a just hearing.

Since the 1972 Watergate scandal, the media has flagged any whiff of wrongdoing by adding -gate to it: Irangate, Nannygate, Nipplegate, Climategate, Monicagate.

To conservatives and other Clinton critics, this may look like the Democratic nominee is once again getting a free pass despite whiffs of wrongdoing by her or her husband, former president Bill Clinton a charge that dates all the way back to Whitewater.

From the day that he beat the double murder rap and walked out of a Los Angeles court, his ill-gained notoriety and perverse celebrity virtually guaranteed that the legal hammer would drop especially hard on him at the first whiff of criminal wrongdoing.

From the day that he beat a double murder rap and walked out of a Los Angeles court, his ill-gained notoriety and perverse celebrity virtually guaranteed that the legal hammer would drop especially hard on him at the first whiff of criminal wrongdoing.

Although neither FrontPoint nor its managers were accused of wrongdoing, the whiff of the scandal created considerable turmoil for the firm as investors fled.

Investigators exonerated him of  wrongdoing.

Blatter cleared Warner of wrongdoing.

They were cleared of wrongdoing.