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Blemished   /blˈɛmɪʃt/   Listen
verb
Blemish  v. t.  (past & past part. blemished; pres. part. blemishing)  
1.
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. "Sin is a soil which blemisheth the beauty of thy soul."
2.
To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame. "There had nothing passed between us that might blemish reputation."





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"Blemished" Quotes from Famous Books



... out of his role in writing such a book.... Renan descends sensibly in the scale from having produced his Abbesse." Heine, with all his genius, "lacked the old-fashioned, laborious, eternally needful moral deliverance": he left a name blemished by "intemperate susceptibility, unscrupulousness in passion, inconceivable attacks on his enemies, still more inconceivable attacks on his friends, want of generosity, ...
— Matthew Arnold • G. W. E. Russell


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