Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically.
Morally blemished; stained or impure.
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.
6 The posters, maculated with filth, garnished like tapestry the sweep of the curbstone.
7 She lifts the pen from the maculated blotter.
8 Blake saw the crimson that dripped on her matting slippers and maculated the cream white of the mandarin coat.
9 A shell had maculated the wall on each side and above the statue, but the little niche and canopy were quite untouched.
10 It fell upon their faces, touching their whiteness with a ruddy tinge, accentuating the stains with which so many of them were freaked and maculated .
11 "Well, there it is then," said the Clown, gesturing with one maculated glove toward a plain wooden chair right before them on the deck.
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