Blemish
['blemɪʃ] or ['blɛmɪʃ]
Definition
(noun.) a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); 'a facial blemish'.
(verb.) mar or impair with a flaw; 'her face was blemished'.
Inputed by Harlow--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.
(v. t.) To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.
(n.) Any mark of deformity or injury, whether physical or moral; anything that diminishes beauty, or renders imperfect that which is otherwise well formed; that which impairs reputation.
Editor: Rochelle
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Stain, sully, blur, spot, tarnish, mar, injure, taint.[2]. Defame, vilify, traduce, ASPERSE, calumniate, slander, malign, revile, run down, speak ill of.
n. [1]. Stain, spot, defect, speck, blur, soil, tarnish, flaw, fault.[2]. Disgrace, dishonor, reproach, taint.
Checked by Gerald
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Spot, blur, blot, flaw, speck, fault, imperfection, stain, daub, tarnish,defacement, discoloration, disfigurement, disgrace, dishonor, defect
ANT:Purity, unsulliedness, honor, intactness
Inputed by Julio
Definition
n. a stain or defect: reproach.—v.t. to mark with any deformity: to tarnish: to defame.—n. Blem′ishment (Spens.) the state of being blemished disgrace.
Typed by Frank
Examples
- It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mrs. Hook Eagles took her up at one of these places--a woman without a blemish in her character and a house in Portman Square. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Jesus was to him the Easter lamb, that traditional human victim without spot or blemish who haunts all the religions of the dark white peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Certainly we could detect no such blemish. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Why not a bath of pure oblivion, a new birth, without any recollections or blemish of a past life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The glass, as I stated before, must be without a blemish, and fixed at an angle of 20 deg. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Mr. Darcy, who never looks at any woman but to see a blemish, and who probably never looked at you in his life! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It was very pretty then, but to me it is much prettier now, for in this seeming blemishes I read a little history. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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