Morally blemished; stained or impure.
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Examples for "maculate "
1 Are the diplomatic corps less maculate than in the days of Grenville Murray?
2 I can make out its long-fingered wings and tightly ruddering tail, its maculate underside.
3 His wasted palms rested on knees that resembled bones draped with maculate clothing; his sere head fell forward.
4 To-morrow's papers would provide them with full accounts, the name of Susan Brundon among the maculate details....
5 In the maculate atmosphere of flat wine and stale cologne he had a sharp recurrence of the scent of pines, lifting warmly in sunny space.
1 The strong and the weak, the pure and the defiled , were there.
2 Not only was her house of life made desolate; it was defiled .
3 Adam was the heave offering of the world, and Eve defiled it.
4 He had not only been beaten; he had been dishonored and defiled .
5 The fire-worshipers defiled the holy city by their authority and their worship.
6 To the sound of martial music they had defiled before the President.
7 The surgeon cannot cut out the disease if his instruments are defiled .
8 I accuse Pope Paul VI, who has defiled the words of Christ.
9 He clothes in white garments those who have not defiled their robes.
10 Her very body seemed defiled by the knowledge that was within it.
11 The war party defiled at a trot, disappearing against the fringing gloom.
12 And, thank Heaven, it has but seldom been defiled by the globe-trotter.
13 He ate little, and the moment he got up he felt defiled .
14 Curiously enough, this rock was not degraded or defiled in any way.
15 They spared neither church nor palace, but defiled the most sacred places.
16 It was a mean expanse, blackened by soot and defiled by refuse.
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defile Verb
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