(n.) The act of defacing, or the condition of being defaced; injury to the surface or exterior; obliteration.
(n.) That which mars or disfigures.
Example Sentences:
(1) Children with multiple defacing anomalies may not be mentally retarded so that aggressive management of their visceral anomalies and hearing problems, and early educational intervention are mandatory.
(2) The ready recourse to these grafts, so much in vogue at the present time in primary rhinoplasties, should be carefully and completely re-examined, since the final result very frequently yields no real benefits and may permanently deface the area from which the cartilage has been taken.
(3) "We must make sure that those who want to advertise [with] women's images in the city can do so without fear of vandalism and defacement of billboards or buses showing women," he has said.
(4) Just as Banksy causes collateral damage to the neatness of walls, so Amazon's masterpiece is a defacement of the public purse.
(5) The damages "nuisances" were "running laundry or defacing walls (67.1%) and "contamination of food (15.3%)", suggesting that chironomid midges influenced the daily life of the residents.
(6) I am devastated by this week, by our descent into defacement and boycott over discussion and debate."
(7) Past posters were defaced with markers on billboards just as quickly, but the parodies had no means of going viral.
(8) We’ve just had the gravestone removed because it’s been rather badly defaced one way and another with people chipping away at it.” I tell Gabrielle that I once interviewed Oscar Wilde’s grandson , who was pleading with admirers not to cover his grandfather’s tomb in Père Lachaise, Paris, with lipstick kisses because it was damaging the stone.
(9) Sherri Iacobelli, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Safety, told the Associated Press Newsome and Tyson, 30, also of Charlotte, had been charged with defacing monuments on state capitol grounds, a misdemeanor that carries a fine of up to $5,000 and a prison term of up to three years, or both.
(10) Earlier about 150 youths defaced central Athens's Christmas tree, hanging bin liners from its branches, before clashing with riot police.
(11) Some see a confident, charismatic comedy talent and a welcome point of difference in a bland – and white – late-night landscape, while others see him as an unwelcome reformist who has defaced the Daily Show that Stewart built.
(12) Other incidents that have worried international campaigners include the arrest of four young men near the northern city of Jaffna in late November, for defacing an image of Rajapaksa, and the death of a Tamil prisoner who was a British citizen in February in the main Colombo jail.
(13) I just think the world is a bit better when you are willing to give people chances.” Hopkins, a columnist with MailOnline, is facing a legal bill estimated at more than £300,000 after a high court judge ruled on Friday that she had defamed Monroe in two tweets sent in May 2015, which the court found had implied that Monroe had defaced or supported defacing a war memorial.
(14) Monroe was awarded £24,000 in damages last week in a row over tweets suggesting the writer approved of defacing a war memorial during an anti-austerity demonstration in Whitehall.
(15) DI Ian Harratt of GMP’s Oldham borough, said: “In the wake of the atrocities that happened at the Manchester Arena, this man thought it was acceptable to deface and set fire to a local mosque.” “This behaviour will not be tolerated,” he went on.
(16) As you walk home, stopping only to deface street art and urinate on sights of natural beauty, consider what’s gone wrong enough to lead you to this point.
(17) I don’t think it’s ever been defaced before in that time.” Gilmore said a large group of “highly respected” Muslims had lived in the community since the 1920s.
(18) Brian Pannebecker knew trouble was brewing when he found one of his letters to the editor defaced with a swastika.
(19) I have no idea if any of those initiatives was inspired by my protest; several others also defaced the hate posters with stickers.
(20) It says to the people of Canning, ‘We don’t care if your main worry is law and order, and the scourge of ice.’” Hastie also used his address on Saturday to take two separate swipes at the opposition, criticising its candidate Matt Keogh and saying the Labor party has shown it will deface Australia’s national achievements with bad policy if given the opportunity.
Disfigurement
Definition:
(n.) Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity.
(n.) That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot.
Example Sentences:
(1) More specifically, disfigurement seldom was mentioned as a reason for not returning to work and for not participating in social activities with work mates, friends, relatives, and society in general.
(2) These injuries, however, have a profound potential for causing lifelong disability and disfigurement and should be addressed as soon as the patient's condition stabilizes.
(3) Trapped on Lampedusa, Fanus tried to burn and disfigure her fingerprints.
(4) One mode involves focal overgrowth of membrane bones, producing multiple hyperostoses which result in progressive craniofacial disfigurement and asymmetry.
(5) Total amputation of the penis is a disfiguring, and functionally and psychologically disabling injury.
(6) The technique allows the removal of these cavities without disfigurement of the head after the brain has been removed.
(7) By mandatory seat belt usage laws a significant reduction in deaths, disfiguring injuries, and hospital bed-days would be realized.
(8) Superiority of this treatment is attributed to the simplicity of its application and lack of disfigurement and scarring.
(9) The advantage of this flap is the donor scar which is less disfiguring than flaps from the anterior chest usually chosen in such cases.
(10) Surface measurements of the ear are needed to assess damage in patients with disfigurement or defects of the ears and face.
(11) Those who cope poorly have significantly lower self-esteem, which suggests that response to disfiguring diseases is affected by basic ego strength.
(12) This may obviate the more serious pathologic changes of advanced disease, especially the disfigurement of chronic and late filariasis.
(13) The delay in diagnosis results not only in unique somatic disfigurement but is also associated with significant mental and emotional dysfunction.
(14) Details are given about specific diagnoses, disability, disfigurement, discomfort, and the relationship of skin change to environmental and occupational exposure.
(15) Principally, there was the legal conflict with actor James Woods, who in 1988 accused her of exotic harassments including leaving a disfigured doll outside his home in Beverly Hills.
(16) In addition, disfiguration of donor sites is eliminated.
(17) Surgery of these benign lesions can at times be disfiguring, especially when the lips, muscles, or the maxilla and mandible are involved.
(18) Countless veterans survived the war but paid the price by leaving it maimed, mutilated and disfigured.
(19) There was no statistically significant association between depression and burn size or disfigurement.
(20) Channel 4's alternative Christmas message, delivered by former model and presenter Katie Piper who was disfigured in a sulphuric acid attack, attracted 500,000 viewers.