defacement

[ UK /dɪfˈe‍ɪsmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
    the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion
    he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape
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How To Use defacement In A Sentence

  • 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:
  • 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
  • The defacement competition challenges crackers to deface as many as 6,000 sites in the shortest time possible to win the contest.
  • So what happens when we begin to allow people to truly deface the so-called "defacement"? HipHopDX.com >
  • 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
  • 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 defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion
  • 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
  • defacement" of music, just like graffiti was considered nothing more than "defacement" of property. HipHopDX.com >
  • 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
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