blemished

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blemished

  1. simple past and past participle of blemish

Adjective

blemished (comparative more blemished, superlative most blemished)

  1. Having blemishes; flawed.
    • 2001, Robert Weissberg, “Chapter 18: Academic Tyranny: The Tale and the Lessons”, in Stuart S. Nagel, editor, Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation, page 111:
      Stated sharply, today′s centers of higher learning are more blemished than superficial appearances suggest, and what often seems “democratic” is little more than contrived public displays.
    • 2008, Ritchie Devon Watson, Normans and Saxons: Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the American Civil War‎, page 65:
      One of them in fact singled out Rebecca, not the marmoreal Rowena, as the novel′s most blemished character. “She is,” he complained, “too near perfection. […] ”
    • 2010, Holly S. Ruddock, Life in Your Losses: Transformation Through Trials‎, page 186:
      The most blemished life will not keep His love from pouring out. It is the blemished and the marked, the hurting and the rejected that stirs this love in Him.

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