Vocabulary Word
Word: marred
Definition: damaged; disfigured; V. mar: spoil; disfigure
Definition: damaged; disfigured; V. mar: spoil; disfigure
Sentences Containing 'marred'
Many housewives lower the window shades that the wall paper may not lose its brilliancy, that the beautiful hues of velvet, satin, and plush tapestry may not be marred by loss in brilliancy and sheen.
The beauty that is the particular province of line drawing is the beauty of contors, and this is marred by heavy light and shade.
A value, though marred in the matter of statistics by inaccuracies; for the catfish is a plenty good enough fish for anybody, and there are no panthers that are`impervious to man.'
``Do you see,''said Caderousse,``all my happiness is marred by one thought?''
The patience with which she endures the hardships that poverty brings with it, and the eagerness she shows to become a Christian, are such that they fill me with admiration, and bind me to serve her all my life; though the happiness I feel in seeing myself hers, and her mine, is disturbed and marred by not knowing whether I shall find any corner to shelter her in my own country, or whether time and death may not have made such changes in the fortunes and lives of my father and brothers, that I shall hardly find anyone who knows me, if they are not alive.
Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face--at least to my taste--his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable.
But in either case, the needle never again, of itself, recovers the original virtue thus marred or lost; and if the binnacle compasses be affected, the same fate reaches all the others that may be in the ship; even were the lowermost one inserted into the kelson.
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::: intrepid - fearless
::: effective - effectual; producing a strong response; striking; in operation; in effect; Ex. effective speech/photograph
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::: relinquish - give up something (with reluctance); yield; release; Ex. relinquish power/the claim to the land/his hold on my arm
::: noose - loop formed in a rope
::: suppliant - entreating; beseeching; N.
::: filibuster - block legislation or prevent action in a lawmaking body by making very slow long speeches; N; freebooter
::: impending - nearing; approaching; about to happen
