Meanings of great blemish in English

That is, no doubt, my fault, and a great blemish in me.

The prick in the butterfly's wing will be in the full-grown insect a great blemish.

This vice of drunkennesse, wherein many take over- great pleasure, was a great blemish to Alexander's virtues.

The conduct of Walpole with regard to the Spanish war is the great blemish of his public life.

One great blemish in the popular mind of America, and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust.

I pledge you my word, if I was asked what was the great blemish in my manner, I'd have said it was bashfulness.'

From the pole downwards, the squares disappeared, soon revealing an area perhaps a kilometre across: a great blemish where the hull appeared to be melting.

This is the greatest blemish on our poet's moral character.

The execution of Sidney is regarded as one of the greatest blemishes of the present reign.

It is the greatest blemish that can be to a Christian, to suffer as an evil-doer.

Scars, however, and bruises, were considered great blemishes.

The greatest blemish of the conversation and manners of the young people of to-day is obtrusiveness and exaggeration.

The two great blemishes on the character of the Russian merchants as a class are, according to general opinion, their ignorance and their dishonesty.

'But,' said Rousseau, 'I remark in your son a propensity to party prejudice, which will be a great blemish in his character.'