disfigure

How To Use disfigure In A Sentence

• One of the nastiest is the way in which male honour is seen as bound up with female behaviour so that any supposed compromise or scandal in what happens to women, even becoming a rape victim, justifies violence against them as well as against their abusers or seducers; hence the 'honour killings' of young girls that disfigure some societies even today. Temple Address: "Becoming Trustworthy: Respect and Self-Respect" Church House
• Davenant's face was disfigured—his nose had been eaten away—by the mercury vapor he inhaled as a treatment for a case of syphilis. Pens at the Ready
• He had spent some years in dissipation, which had disfigured him more than the wounds. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
• The mother I knew during my lifetime was a beautiful and vain woman, one who resisted having a mastectomy for breast cancer because she could not bear to be, as she put it, "mutilated" and "disfigured. We Remember - Eleanor Hatkin Freedman, 1924 - 1974
• He remained horribly disfigured and his speech was still badly affected. The Sun
• My face was completely disfigured. Times, Sunday Times
• And, as I say, there was law and order instead of enactments and restrictions such as disfigure our umpire state to-day. Law and Order
• I've been going through terrible pain thinking that she would be horribly, horribly disfigured. Times, Sunday Times
• To class man and the ape together, or the lion with the cat, and to say that the lion is a _cat with a mane and a long tail_ -- this were to degrade and disfigure nature instead of describing her and denominating her species. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
• She was badly disfigured in the fire.