How To Use Deface In A Sentence

Just as people shouldn't drop litter, they shouldn't deface the city with graffiti, and ways need to be found of persuading them to stop doing it.
The *victim* of the defacement is the person who is intended to be fearful. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Shmulevich Case — Facts and New York Law, as I Can Best Figure Them Out:
Your eyes glow every single morning, and you're always smiling; you doodle both your names in all the books, even deface public property.
No photocopied or defaced vouchers accepted. The Sun
The final programmes will engagingly escort us to the present day, via a coin defaced by Suffragettes, a plate from the Russian revolution, and a credit card, to the final object. A History of the World in 100 Objects is Radio 4 at its best

The piano, decrepit on its legs, though made of good wood painted black and gilded, was dirty, defaced, and scratched; and its keys, worn like the teeth of old horses, were yellowed with the fuliginous colors of the pipe. A Daughter of Eve
Somebody has defaced one of city hall's famous murals and it must be replaced. The Sun
A confusion of lorries and cement mixers defaced the area just past the green.
Voucher must be produced on arrival, no defaced or photocopies accepted. The Sun
No copied, damaged or defaced coupons accepted. The Sun
Since the CD is read-only, the attacker cannot deface the copy on the CD.
I read it as a kind of defaced romance; very thin and lean, but all true, and very marvelous as such. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
Speed camera bosses are undeterred by vandals who defaced signs warning drivers that mobile speed cameras operate in the area.
Voucher must be produced on arrival, no defaced or photocopies accepted. The Sun
No copied, damaged or defaced coupons accepted. The Sun
It's illegal to deface banknotes.
With these they were something perswaded, and prevailed upon by the same person, to permit him to carry away all that were left undefaced, by which means, the writings the church hath now came to be preserved. The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral
Photocopies, damaged or defaced vouchers will not be accepted. The Sun
We are fighting back against the litter louts, the illegal fly-tippers and fly-posters and the vandals who deface the city with graffiti.
In a separate attack, Chanel's Web site was defaced by an attacker calling himself ‘TheRegister’, which we are somewhat concerned may bring our name into repute.
Copied, forged or defaced vouchers not accepted. The Sun
In July its war memorial was defaced by vandals. Times, Sunday Times
Even had we, however, a perfect and trustworthy transcript of Shakespeare's original sketch for this play, there can be little doubt that the rough draught would still prove almost as different from the final masterpiece as is the soiled and ragged canvas now before us, on which we trace the outline of figures so strangely disfigured, made subject to such rude extremities of defacement and defeature. A Study of Shakespeare
Copied, damaged or defaced coupons will not be accepted at the retailer's discretion. The Sun
The monument of Francis the Second, Duke of Bretagne, and father to Anne of Bretagne, the Queen of France, is one of the most magnificent of the kind in France, and from this circumstance, I suppose, has been suffered to survive the Revolution undefaced. Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
In July its war memorial was defaced by vandals. Times, Sunday Times
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of Tierra del Fuego, where Death and Decay prevail. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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defaces" a flag -- language Mr. Bush likewise appears to have violated. Maries Two Cents
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Thoughtless boys defaced the gate of the school with rude message in blue paint.
In recent weeks the graffiti vandals have defaced the memorial.
Vouchers that have been forged, defaced or otherwise tampered with will not be valid for use. The Sun
We are fighting back against the litter louts, the illegal fly-tippers and fly-posters and the vandals who deface the city with graffiti.
She defaced the book by writing on it.
This voucher is not valid if deemed to have been tampered with, or defaced. The Sun
Vouchers that have been forged, defaced or otherwise tampered with are not valid. The Sun
Copied, damaged or defaced coupons will not be accepted. Times, Sunday Times
In July its war memorial was defaced by vandals. Times, Sunday Times
Government offices were attacked, and trains stopped and defaced.
Each coin has one side smoothed down flat and in theory this should be the tails side of the coin since it is illegal to deface an image of the monarch in England.
“Wife, haue you not defaced your jewels, to make this armure?” The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
Hours after it went on display the billboard was defaced, with brown paint smeared on the image. Times, Sunday Times
It was part of a Skipton Civic Society project to restore the area and Gwynne Walters, from the society, made a plea to the local community not to deface the bridge nor vandalise the area.
We crept into our little sister's bedroom and spitefully defaced her pop posters.
Hours after it went on display the billboard was defaced, with brown paint smeared on the image. Times, Sunday Times
Copied, forged or defaced vouchers not accepted. The Sun
No photocopies, damaged and defaced coupons will be accepted. The Sun
No. You have sent them to us with their arms reversed, their shields broken, their impresses defaced, -- and so displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed, such unfeathered two-legged things, that we no longer know them. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
The rule of thumb at a casa de cambio is to reject all damaged or defaced foreign bills. Travelers' checks, ATM machines or cash… Oaxaca, Money and Exchange: A Primer
No defaced or photocopied coupons accepted, originals only. The Sun
No photocopies, damaged and defaced coupons will be accepted. The Sun
One very black mark he had to his name; but the matter was hushed up at the time, and so defaced by legends before I came into those parts that I scruple to set it down.
“Do not fear it,” said Lucy, when upon one occasion a hint of such suspicion escaped her lover; “the mirrors which receive the reflection of all successive objects are framed of hard materials like glass or steel; the softer substances, when they receive an impression, retain it undefaced.” The Bride of Lammermoor
The charities told the paper that in the past, they removed labels and "defaced" any fake trademarks before distributing the clothes, and they pointed out that the donations helped save them--and therefore the city--money. NYC Police Dept Stops Giving Counterfeit Clothing To Charity - The Consumerist
Vouchers that have been forged, defaced or otherwise tampered with will not be valid for use. The Sun
Vouchers that have been forged, defaced or otherwise tampered with will not be valid for use. The Sun
Vouchers that have been forged, defaced or otherwise tampered with are not valid. The Sun
His mother — her bones scattered — her name defaced — her rest annulled! On Forsyte 'Change
They do so because their market is hardly a market at all compared with the forest of For Sale signs which deface Britain.
The defacement competition challenges crackers to deface as many as 6,000 sites in the shortest time possible to win the contest.
She also defaces a sweater with a black Magic Marker, then neatly folds it and puts back on its closet shelf. 2009 April 27 « One-Minute Book Reviews
The environment was defaced by graffiti and malicious damage that was seldom repaired.
Vouchers that have been forged, defaced or otherwise tampered with will not be valid for use. The Sun
For like as winter rasure doth alway arase and deface green summer, so fareth it by unstable love in man and woman. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Equally irksome, however, is the trend for outpourings of cloying sentimentality that deface the personal columns at this time of year.
With the aid of plastic surgeons who should have known better, he almost literally defaced himself.
We crept into our little sister's bedroom and spitefully defaced her pop posters.
Frank then excoriated a woman who asked a question while holding up a picture of President Obama defaced to look like Hitler: Mjh's blog — 2009 — August
Don't deface library books.
Photocopies, damaged or defaced vouchers will not be accepted. The Sun
Reverse graffiti is a type of street art that effaces – not defaces – public property. REVERSE GRAFFITI: South African Artists Tag Walls By Scrubbing Them Clean | Inhabitat
Vouchers that have been forged, defaced or otherwise tampered with are not valid. The Sun
No photocopied or defaced vouchers accepted. The Sun
Copied, damaged or defaced vouchers will not be accepted, only original vouchers are valid. The Sun
I don't understand the motives behind the people who "defaced" the stain, though. Mary, graffiti, brown paint, and "Engine Shampoo."
If you deface and wreck your countryside with dirty great turbines it is obvious that you will turn visitors away.
The presence of property (moveable/immoveable) and bank balance more than once deface is a proof for his indulgence in corruption. Appeal to Prime Minister of Pakistan of Pensioneers
No person shall wilfully damage injure or deface any of the Company's property.
No copied, damaged or defaced coupons accepted. The Sun
No photocopied or defaced vouchers accepted. The Sun
Angry residents claim graffiti vandals are continuing to deface Chiswick's streets because the owners of business and public properties have a ‘lazy attitude’ towards removing tags.
All his polychromes were thought to have been lost or defaced, until some of them were accidentally found just two years ago, hidden under whitewash and plaster, by a German film team making a documentary on the writer.
Prior to the event, I had to personally replace the fliers around campus advertising the Ms. Coulter's talk every day because they were repeatedly torn down or defaced.
No photocopies, damaged and defaced coupons will be accepted. The Sun
Finally, should there be a reprint of this book, one can hope that the Press will take the trouble to weed out the endless proofreading errors that deface the present text.
A local constituency office in Keighley has been targeted by vandals who have defaced the building with graffiti.
I drop all points of controversy, weighty though these be; I take your defaced and damnified kirk on your own terms; and I ask you, Are you a worthy minister? Lay Morals
Yet they knew that the Massachusett Indians, for example, considered it impious and inhumane to deface the monuments of the dead.
It may sound obvious but cheque book customers should not deface Irish pound cheques by crossing out the currency sign and writing in a euro sign instead - or vice versa.
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of Tierra del Fuego, where Death and decay prevail. "Our Voyage having come to an end..."
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The main entrance door is defaced with graffiti, which should shock the parents of youngsters guilty of this profound indignity.
The room was wrecked and most of the pews had been stolen or defaced.
So what happens when we begin to allow people to truly deface the so-called "defacement"? HipHopDX.com >
They answered, ‘O our lord, we know not at all, but he bade us deface whatso we had done.’
The vandals have also defaced rocks elsewhere on the moor, including popular routes for walkers and visitors to the area.
Vouchers that have been forged, defaced or otherwise tampered with are not valid. The Sun
To their credit, like Israeli officials, mainstream American Jewish leaders condemned the price tag vigilantes after the widely publicized defacement of a mosque in Israel proper last week. Dan Fleshler: How Extremist Israeli Settlers Celebrate the Harvest Festival
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It stands to reason that the fragile tissues of culture are dislocated, and its delicate edges defaced, by such persistive governmental brutalization as the inhabitants have undergone. Old Calabria
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Madison homeowners are livid after vandals defaced their homes.
A fearful storm burst over the town of Pau on this day; a thunderbolt fell, and defaced the royal arms over the castle-gateway; and a fine bull, which was called _the King_, from its stately appearance, the chief of a herd called _the royal herd_, terrified by the noise and clamour, precipitated itself over the walls into the ditch of the castle, and was killed. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
Speed camera bosses are undeterred by vandals who defaced signs warning drivers that mobile speed cameras operate in the area.
Last night it was reported that Lady Gaga arrived in Tokyo with a "defaced" Hermes Birkin bag tattooed with Japanese text. Fast Company
Copied, damaged or defaced coupons will not be accepted. Times, Sunday Times
When a rapper rhymes and "spits" on a track, its like their tagging a wall … that simple … To the outside lookin in, its defacement of property, but to us … HipHopDX.com >
The persons invading the San Jose office barricaded themselves in a conference room where they defaced the walls and damaged furniture.
Copied, damaged or defaced coupons will not be accepted at the retailer's discretion. The Sun
Copied, damaged or defaced coupons will not be accepted. Times, Sunday Times
As Gardaí continue the hunt for reckless vandals who defaced statues of Our Lady at a rural grotto in Kerry, shocked locals held a prayer meeting on the site on Monday night and prayed for forgiveness for the culprits.
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I don't want a nice hardback book (that could just end up as a valuable first edition one day, who knows) complete with electronic gadgetry and when I checked on the handful of Morpurgo paperbacks I had chosen and found the same, I put them all back on the shelf and walked round to WHS for undefaced copies. A book I almost bought...
York Minster clergy expressed shock and outrage today after vandals defaced its historic walls with offensive graffiti.
Graffiti is one of the most controversial art forms out there since it defaces public property – but what if graffiti artists actually cleaned up the walls they tagged up by etching their sketches into the grime that already exists on them? South African Reverse Graffiti Artists Tag Up Walls By Scrubbing Them Clean | Inhabitat
the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion
This maenad that I have defaced here is one of my favorites but obviously she has no body and I kind of want a big piece, full body, dancing, etc. Lolgreeks 2.0 « paper fruit
The pedestals of statues are often defaced with posters pasted by political outfits and commercial bodies, particularly in a world where market forces rule the roost.
He has been arrested numerous times for his artistic self-expression by his government who does not agree with his reasoning that because they are forcibly removing these citizens from their dwellings in order to demolish the buildings and build commercially on the land, that spray painting his profile on building facades is only temporary "defacement" and that, really, it is art. Paige Donner: Greening Hollywood: L.A. Art Show's Visually Moving Feast
The State of Oklahoma imposes a fine up to $3,000 and a jail term up to three years for anyone who contemptuously or maliciously burns, mutilates, defaces or tramples upon the U.S. flag. Intertribal: barn burning
Voters such as scriptwriter Fernando Orduna, 58, took part in a national movement that urged people to annul their votes or deface ballots to protest the largely government-funded political parties that have done little to break Mexico out of the doldrums. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
Dr. Qadri opines that the conduct of today's terrorists defaces the 1400-year history of Islam's excellent treatment of non-Muslim citizens and the acts of terrorism committed today do not champion the cause of Islam, rather they malign its good name. Kemal Argon: Who's Really Behind The Fatwa Against Terrorism And Suicide Bombings?
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No photocopied or defaced vouchers accepted. The Sun
Copied, damaged or defaced vouchers will not be accepted, only original vouchers are valid. The Sun
Objective : To investigate effect of sandwich restoration on repairing tooth deface and preserving the gingival.
There is some reason to suppose that the completion and dedication of the baths preceded the destruction of the city but a short time, from the inscription being found perfect on the wall of the baths, for it was the custom to write these notices in the most public places, and after a very short season they were covered over by others, as one billsticker defaces the labors of his predecessors. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
For good measure, they defaced some of the pagan reliefs adorning its walls.
The Act also covers persons who knowingly or wilfully (within the timeframe specified for their retention) destroy, deface or conceal from the Revenue any documents.
We are not free to deface and destroy the natural world.
defacement" of music, just like graffiti was considered nothing more than "defacement" of property. HipHopDX.com >
No. You have sent them to us with their arms reversed, their shields broken, their impresses defaced; and so displumed, degraded, and metamorphosed, such unfeathered two-legged things, that we no longer know them. Paras. 350-374
Besides, every true book lover knows that in three hundred years, what was "defaced" becomes "historical. The Gates Of Sleep
Objective : To investigate effect of sandwich restoration on repairing tooth deface and preserving the gingival.
All his polychromes were thought to have been lost or defaced, until some of them were accidentally found just two years ago, hidden under whitewash and plaster, by a German film team making a documentary on the writer.
Flickr's Joe D! has a laugh-out-loud set of 75 "refaced" US bank-notes, in which the various dead presidents are reinvented as a series of ever-funnier defacements. Boing Boing
Now, however slight might be the value of the work in question destroyed, it is surely of startling interest to know that _work may be destroyed_, or worse still, defaced and tampered with, at the present moment in full London, with the joyous approval of the major part of the popular press. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
If somebody entered the National Gallery and defaced a Gainsborough they would be prosecuted.
We have had very uncongenial weather lately for aeirial music, but I beg you to remember, Sir, that if by your change of abode the Harp in dimensions becomes wrong, you are at liberty to change it at a future time, if undeface'd. Letter 218
Vouchers that have been forged, defaced or otherwise tampered with will not be valid for use. The Sun
This voucher is not valid if deemed to have been tampered with, or defaced. The Sun
Photocopies, damaged or defaced vouchers will not be accepted. The Sun
She defaced the book by writing on it.
Before shops had invaded its ground-floor, and advertisements had defaced the exquisite line of carvings just above, the Rez de chaussée had seven low arcades whose pilasters and windows were carved with medallions, candelabra, and "grotesques" in low relief. The Story of Rouen
Copied, damaged or defaced vouchers will not be accepted, only original vouchers are valid. The Sun
Needless to say, I was shocked when I saw this source of pride defaced with black spray paint.
In July its war memorial was defaced by vandals. Times, Sunday Times
The scrawl which defaces many a wall, subway, building, bus shelter and cable box across the district is deeply offensive to many people.
Prior to the event, I had to personally replace the fliers around campus advertising the Ms. Coulter's talk every day because they were repeatedly torn down or defaced.
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scars defaced her cheeks
Alldas. de, a site that mirrors defaced websites for posterity, is shutting down. Boing Boing: February 10, 2002 - February 16, 2002 Archives
The Charter also authorised the Company to use a distinctive flag, indicating the British character of the undertaking, and the one adopted, following the example of the English Colonies, is the British flag, "defaced," as it is termed, with the Company's badge -- a lion. British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo
It is only a literary fop or doctrinaire who will attempt to remint all the small defaced coinage that passes through his hands, only a lisping young fantastico who will refuse all conventional garments and all conventional speech. Style
These articles admonish readers to keep their virus detectors and firewalls up-to-date to combat cyberterrorism, because we're going to see more Web defacements and viruses as parts of cyberterrorist attacks.
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Graffiti is one of the most controversial art forms out there since it defaces public property – but what if graffiti artists actually cleaned up REVERSE GRAFFITI: South African Artists Tag Walls By Scrubbing Them Clean | Inhabitat
Operation Baylout, as the attack is called, also involved the reported defacement of the Swedish website of the IFPI. Big 4 IFPI under online attack
This fact can be attested to by the presence, in cities like San Francisco where graffiti is common, of illegally-painted murals executed with 30 cans of spray paint, dozens of oil paint sticks or markers loaded with artist-mixed inks, which have themselves been "defaced" by simple spray-paint or Sharpie tags. Archive 2006-07-01
The traffic crawled at its usual stop-start pace, but she made good time on a cut-through she knew in Ballsbridge and was soon zipping across the junction at Nutley Lane and parking in the stunted multi-storey car park that defaced the southern reaches of the hospital grounds. The Priest
The second volume of the geological record, called the Paleozoic (Greek, PALAIOS, ancient; ZOE, life), has come down to us far less mutilated and defaced than has the first volume, which contains the traces of the most ancient life of the globe. The Elements of Geology
Why were hooligans again able to vandalise public buildings and deface national memorials? The Sun
But in a feat of inspired scholarship, Duffy has turned to the very features of these books that have rankled those who study them as works of art: the jottings in the margins and on the flyleaves made by their owners, hitherto regarded as defacements at worst and proof of provenance at best. Life in the Margins
It was also mentioned that some signs newly erected by Council were defaced and that a wash wouldn't do any harm to the old signs and would improve the legibility.
a second travail, and the chances thereof, than to have defaced an enterprise of so great assurance, until I knew whether it pleased God to put a disposition in her princely and royal heart either to follow or forslow (neglect, decline, lose through sloth) the same. The Discovery of Guiana
We notice with gratification that such vulgarisms as ab´do-men, pus´sl (for pust´ule!), s_w_ord (for sord), etc., no longer continue to deface the book. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
A vandal would have to go out, buy some Liquid Paper and paint the mustache out in order to deface it.
Some of them reportedly defaced posters of her in the lobby, writing comments and tossing drinks on her pictures.
TEL AVIV—The burning and defacement of a mosque in northern Israel early Monday sparked a riot and heightened Israeli concerns that Jewish extremists could stoke Palestinian outrage and ignite a new uprising. Mosque Is Torched in Israel

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