blemished
past simple and past participle ofblemish
blemish
verb[T]
uk/ˈblem.ɪʃ/us/ˈblem.ɪʃ/tospoilsomething:
Thislatestrevelationhasseriouslyblemished the governor'sreputation.
Synonyms
deface
disfigure
flaw
Damaging and spoiling
- adulterate
- adulterated
- adulteration
- at the expense ofsomeoneidiom
- at-risk
- butcher
- erode
- flaw
- foul
- foul(something)up
- gild the lilyidiom
- gloss
- gnaw
- rampage
- ravage
- ravages
- ruin
- scourge
- sour
- wreck
Examplesofblemished
blemished
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
And it is the organ that takes slightlyblemishedcompositional material further.
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Here, too, was untimely sickness and death, a once-handsome face lined andblemishedby the struggle with the disease bilharzia.
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It is with genuine regret that that record has now beenblemished.
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If we allow a substantial reduction in farming in these areas, the natural beauty will not bloom but will beblemished.
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Such action gained a high place in the list of unconstitutional disgraces that haveblemishedparliamentary history.
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My party's record is deeplyblemishedand not good enough.
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An endorsed licence signifies to them ablemishedrecord, and can never, in the eyes of good motorists, really be obliterated.
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Nevertheless, we feel obliged to say that it isblemishedby an element of distorted reasoning.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
My track record on this subject is ratherblemished, because, in 1986.
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It is written by non-believers in a very understanding way and isblemished, in my view, by only one extraordinary conclusion.
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That objective is acknowledged by most people to be sensible, but it will not be advanced by a clause which isblemishedby so manifest and unwarranted an absurdity.
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Sefton had that sort of record to fall back on, but the proposals haveblemishedit to some extent.
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A daily newspaper which is not published every day, and when it is published isblemishedby jumbled words and missing lines, is an amateur abomination.
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It is worth putting the record straight, because we do not want his reputationblemishedfor the entirely pure and philanthropic measures that he promoted so ably.
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They may be angled or depressed at both ends, ridged or ornamented, spotted orblemished.
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- designated space
- designated target
- designated wilderness
- designating
- designation
- designation of origin
- design audit
- design-audit
- design automation
- design brief
- design-brief
- design criteria
- design cycle
- designed
- designer
- designer baby
- designer-baby
- designer clothes
- designer drug
- designer-drug
- designer label
- designer-label
- designer socialism
- designer-socialism
- designer socialist