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The regularity with which he did this smacked of some one who was waiting to live upon her labour.

Dennis's suspicions of his wife smacked of midlife crisis.

Its insistence that its main role in responding to the crisis would be to keep China's economy growing smacked of an excuse for inaction.

Some of the early efforts smacked of discrimination, like GRID, for gay-related immune deficiency.

I'll pick through thrift-store racks for clothes, sure, but I'm a snob about food, and 'Grocery Outlet' smacked of discards and dregs.

Eg. The selection conferences smacked of a piece of hole and corner business.

In rescuing Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, European leaders vehemently resisted any solution that smacked of default by a eurozone country.

China's clampdown on the free flow of information has often smacked of protectionism.

That smacked of desperation, given that Russia's voting procedure bears little resemblance to genuine elections.

At the end of the party, his behaviour smacked of rudeness.

The London Bus routine was pretty much rubbish . . . the music was poor and everything smacked of pop culture. Period.

Commemorative activities in honour of some other leaders also sometimes smacked of the cult of personality.

For many Germans, who oppose foreign military expeditions on any grounds, this smacked of gunboat diplomacy.

Yesterday's celebrations were awesome. They also smacked of triumphalism.

The big fuss they made this week about funding for family planning smacked of point-scoring.

For less sanguine investors , the idea of going cap in hand to China smacked of desperation .

From its inception it avoided buying government bonds because it smacked of fiscal support.

I was closed to anything that smacked of spirituality and religion.

The dons valued "gentlemanly" subjects such as classics or philosophy over anything that smacked of "utility" .

His action[color=#0000ff] smacked of ingratitude.

In the past, capital controls often smacked of desperation.

The sea air smacked of salt.

Her last remark smacked of rudeness.

After the war GM rejected a mutual scheme that the unions wanted because it smacked of socialism;