Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically.
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Examples for "stain "
Examples for "stain "
1 The stain of slavery exists in the First of the Blacks himself.
2 Its repercussions, of course, have spread like a stain across the family.
3 Better to let Patji claim rivals than to directly stain one's hands.
4 One of our early presidents called it our great and foul stain .
5 But if that was the case, why had he left this stain ?
1 He could see further down into the defile , which was far indeed.
2 We skirted the plain, and struck into a defile in the mountains.
3 A wild shout from every height of the defile was the answer.
4 Their gathering-place was at the entrance of the defile leading to Zahara.
5 These things proceed out of the heart and defile the whole man.
1 China has since sought to sully her reputation and undermine her claims.
2 The judge publicly admonished Felder for his attempts to sully Minnelli's reputation.
3 It was forbidden to sully their royal bloodlines by producing mud children.
4 And Force would never sully his hands with that sort of behaviour.
5 Not even Communism can sully the Caribbean or dim the tropical sunshine.
1 According to him, this was a targeted attack to tarnish his character.
2 The sweat and strife of some careers must tarnish the brightest lustre.
3 But some worry this attention will tarnish the culture, writes Baz Macdonald.
4 Wouldn't want to tarnish my image by looking like a good guy.
5 The other tarnish on the clear mirror was of a graver kind.
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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