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[syn: blemished, flawed]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
Sin is a soil which blemisheth the beauty of thy
soul. --Brathwait.
[1913 Webster]
2. To tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.
[1913 Webster]
There had nothing passed between us that might
blemish reputation. --Oldys.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
blemished
adj 1: marred by imperfections [ant: unblemished, unmarred,
unmutilated]
2: having a blemish or flaw; "a flawed diamond"; "an irregular
pair of jeans" [syn: blemished, flawed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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