Blemished

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blemish \Blem"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blemished}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Blemishing}.] [OE. blemissen, blemishen, OF. blemir,
     blesmir, to strike, injure, soil, F. bl[^e]mir to grow pale,
     fr. OF. bleme, blesme, pale, wan, F. bl[^e]me, prob. fr. Icel
     bl[=a]man the livid color of a wound, fr. bl[=a]r blue; akin
     to E. blue. OF. blemir properly signifies to beat one (black


     and) blue, and to render blue or dirty. See {Blue}.]
     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.
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              Sin is a soil which blemisheth the beauty of thy
              soul.                                 --Brathwait.
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     2. To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.
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              There had nothing passed between us that might
              blemish reputation.                   --Oldys.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blemished
       adj 1: marred by imperfections [ant: {unblemished}]
       2: having a blemish or flaw; "a flawed diamond" [syn: {flawed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  108 Moby Thesaurus words for "blemished":
     adulterated, bandy, bandy-legged, beautiless, bloated, blotted,
     bowlegged, cacophonic, cacophonous, checked, cicatrized,
     club-footed, cracked, crazed, damaged, defaced, defective,
     deficient, deformed, disfigured, distorted, dwarfed, dysphemistic,
     dysphemized, erroneous, fallible, faulty, flatfooted, flawed,
     found wanting, grotesque, homely, ill-made, ill-proportioned,
     ill-shaped, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure,
     inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inelegant, inexact, keloidal,
     kinked, knock-kneed, lacking, makeshift, malformed, marred,
     mediocre, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, mixed,
     monstrous, mutilated, not perfect, off, out of shape, partial,
     patchy, pigeon-toed, pimpled, pimply, plain, pug-nosed, rachitic,
     rickety, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, short,
     short on looks, simous, sketchy, snub-nosed, split, spoiled,
     stumpy, swaybacked, talipedic, truncated, twisted, uglified, ugly,
     ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful,
     uncomely, undeveloped, uneven, unfinished, unhandsome, unlovely,
     unperfected, unpleasing, unpretty, unsightly, unsound, unthorough,
     wanting, warped