How To Use Disfigured In A Sentence
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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
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He had spent some years in dissipation, which had disfigured him more than the wounds.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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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
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He remained horribly disfigured and his speech was still badly affected.
The Sun
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My face was completely disfigured.
Times, Sunday Times
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I've been going through terrible pain thinking that she would be horribly, horribly disfigured.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was badly disfigured in the fire.
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At the end of the season their leaves are frequently dulled and disfigured by powdery mildew.
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The skyline is disfigured by pylons carrying electricity over the Pennines.
Times, Sunday Times
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Looking closer, they might just see the edge of the prosthetic nose she is forced to wear to disguise her disfigured features.
The Sun
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She released pictures yesterday showing her disfigured face in the hope that witnesses will come forward.
Times, Sunday Times
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These problems were compounded by his use of liquid silicone injections that in some cases disfigured his patients.
Times, Sunday Times
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a disfigured face
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The sealed-off, disfigured, and newly militarized spaces of the New York through which I have always loved to wander at all hours seemed to have been put beyond reach for the duration.
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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
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Modern clothes are unwearable and the fashion industry has been disfigured by big business and nudity, says a legendary designer.
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Their fighter's brutally disfigured foot cancels any hopes of victory.
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To emphasize my apartness from these ballerinas, I disfigured my body into unpleasant shapes.
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Family and friends have dismissed suggestions she disfigured herself as'ridiculous'.
The Sun
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In line with the motive to instruct, there are diseased organs, a liver shrivelled from alcohol abuse, lungs disfigured by cigarette tar, the misshapen brain of an Alzheimer's sufferer.
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Their features are incognizable so disfigured are they with stripes and daubs in red, white, black and sometimes yellow.
My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)
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Muhammadanism" which is but an ossified form of Islam, clothed in Mediæval beliefs and disfigured by pagan practices.
Notes on Islam
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Jean Valjean, as we have just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been unrecognizable in full noonday.
Les Miserables
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There were a lot of badly disfigured individuals who'd suffered the nerve damage leprosy causes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her face was badly disfigured.
Times, Sunday Times
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The old city is increasingly disfigured by tasteless new buildings.
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Shards of skin dangled from fingers that look disfigured and ended with fingernails that can only be described as a manicurist's worst nightmare.
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The scars on his arms and his disfigured hands tell their own harrowing tale.
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To see the smile on the face of children who were disfigured, disendowed, left to themselves, and disowned by parents is just one wonderful thing.
Tata Chairman's $5 Million Smiles
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Fortunately she hasn't been majorly disfigured or anything, otherwise they'd have had to break the nose again and re-set it.
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George's face is badly disfigured and he has no fingers or toes; his voice is high-pitched because a part of his throat has been eroded by the disease.
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I am disfigured for life.
The Sun
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It made them strong and willful, and it made them blind and disfigured, and it spurred them to sing strange guttural songs in croaking voices that haunted the American night.
Hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Hobo Matters
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her face was hideously disfigured after the accident
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Her face is disfigured and she has burns across most of her body.
Times, Sunday Times
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And in 1996 when Paddy said that Parliament had become "A rotten mess.a dishevelled, disfigured old corpse of what was once called the Mother of Parliaments.
The Economist: Daily news and views
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But having set up Let's Face It, a charity to support the disfigured, she has seen how severe facial deformity has destroyed the lives of so many.
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Long and tearfully the old pastor looked at that name disfigured, as she, too, who bore it had been, by the hand of man.
Lancashire Idylls (1898)
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There were a lot of badly disfigured individuals who'd suffered the nerve damage leprosy causes.
Times, Sunday Times
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While off work, he had an accident that disfigured his face.
Times, Sunday Times
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The patients to undergo this new medical procedure have been seriously disfigured by burns, serious accidents or personal tragedies.
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He was disfigured for life by the burns he received in the accident.
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His facial expression never changed when I touched those terrible marks, and put my fingertips to his disfigured, discoloured, swollen ears.
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One very pretty girl has had her face all cut open, and may remain disfigured for life.
Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
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Dazzled by clustered headlamps and shiny bodywork, they are unable to see how their beloved cars have disfigured Britain.
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strip mining left a disfigured landscape
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Consider the partially analogous case of those disfigured by thalidomide.
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The nephew of Anjelica Huston — and grandson of John Huston — made a harrowingly brilliant debut on the Halloween-night episode of HBO's sprawling gangster drama as Richard Harrow, a disfigured sniper who joined forces with fellow World War I veteran Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) in Chicago.
Cheers & Jeers: Boardwalk Empire's Man in the Iron Mask
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It's called capsular contracture … Women with capsular contracture often end up with disfigured breasts and pain.
The silicone breast implant scandal | Naomi Wolf
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Appropriately enough, the plate's iconic force -- reminiscent of non-perspectival medieval representations -- grows out of the violent contrast between the "depthless" Gestalt of Los trapped "in dreamless night" and his gaze of catastrophic expectation (reinforced by the toothless, semingly disfigured mouth).
Bringing About the Past
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One of the gins was a disfigured-looking object; she had lost her nose and lips.
Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills
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Appropriately enough, the plate's iconic force -- reminiscent of non-perspectival medieval representations -- grows out of the violent contrast between the "depthless" Gestalt of Los trapped "in dreamless night" and his gaze of catastrophic expectation (reinforced by the toothless, semingly disfigured mouth).
Bringing About the Past
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He opened it and the blast disfigured his face and cost him an eye and three fingers.
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A gash from a tomahawk disfigured his head; the woolly hair was matted with blood.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
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The young baronet, who now, though still entitled to be called young, was disfigured by the premature defeatures of a vicious life, mistrusted it all the more, when, on visiting the old hall, he was forced to recognize the improvements effected in the neighbouring property (that he should be forced to call it "_neighbouring_!") by the judicious administration of the new owner.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
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Her hair was not disfigured by the art of the friseur, but fell in jetty ringlets on her neck, confined only by a circlet, richly set with diamonds.
Waverley
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I've been going through terrible pain thinking that she would be horribly, horribly disfigured.
Times, Sunday Times
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They reported bodies everywhere, in the water and on the rocks, in caves and at abandoned campsites, the survivors disfigured by ugly pockmarks.
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His face is disfigured for 24 hours.
The Sun
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He was badly disfigured by the accident.
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The skyline is disfigured by pylons carrying electricity over the Pennines.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our countryside remains disfigured by barbed wire, locked gates and threatening signs.
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Drunkenness, especially during holiday periods, disfigured the town and aroused the ire of the local opinion formers.
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Her face was badly disfigured.
Times, Sunday Times
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_They_ but disfigured images of man's rude fashioning: whilst _thou_ wouldst injure the _once_ loved form of God's high creation, -- wouldst entail on the body a premature decay -- and on that which dieth not, an irradicable blight.
A Love Story
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Her face was hideously disfigured by dark red scars.
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Likewise John, the horror-story writer neighbour whose face is disfigured by a livid birthmark.
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The mother is remonstrating with her daughter who is disfigured by lameness and in more pain than usual because of a recent misguided attempt to climb a mountain.
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Her face is disfigured and she has burns across most of her body.
Times, Sunday Times
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He remained horribly disfigured and his speech was still badly affected.
The Sun
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These "disfigured" hands have fueled discussions for the last 100 years.
The Chicago Blog: February 2006 Archives
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He was badly disfigured by the accident.
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The second operation, carried out in Paris in January 2007, involved a 29-year-old man disfigured by a neurofibroma, a massive tumour growing on his facial nerves.
Face Transplant ‘Double Success’ | Disinformation
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He leapt into his path and, as a result, was so badly disfigured that he was forced to retire.
Times, Sunday Times
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She relished the extravagant fashions of bustles and waterfall backs, and flounced edges on her skirts and frillings on her boots even though these were disfigured by mud during London's frequently rainy days.
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The other three corpses are said to have been so badly disfigured that identification is proving difficult.
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From the start he felt separated from other children by the scars that disfigured his bird-like face.
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Victims can be left with disfigured or shrivelled limbs.
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The vandals disfigured the statue
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Last week, he finally buried his niece, after a delay in identifying her disfigured body.
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The gardens are now a mixture of municipal bedding and 19C specimen trees, all somewhat disfigured by eye-level lollipop lighting.
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My face was completely disfigured.
Times, Sunday Times
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Moreover, the responses Earthy's informants gave when asked why they "disfigured" their bodies in this manner suggest an explanation quite different from what ethnographers may originally have had in mind.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
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They participated in the selection of both targets, namely the minibus taxi (whose attack was aborted for reasons which are unclear and are not relevant in this decision) as well as the bus which was fired at by the applicants as a result of which 7 people died and 27 others suffered serious injuries resulting in many of them being permanently disabled and disfigured ......
ANC Daily News Briefing
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La Chimuela—the nickname indicates disfigured teeth—rips open her left forearm in a splash of bottles.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
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It should be said, in justice to the New Haven colonists, though they were the most opulent of the New England planters, save the wealthy settlers of Narragansett, that money of all kinds was scarce, and that the Indian money, wampum-peag, being made of a comparatively frail sea-shell, was more easily disfigured and broken than was metal coin; and that there was little transferable wealth in the community anyway, even in "Country Pay.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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She was badly disfigured in the fire.
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On the other side of the water, the New York Sun called the obelisk "terrific humbug," and "only a broken, decaying and disfigured old block of stone.
'Encyclopedia of the Exquisite: An Anecdotal History of Elegant Delights'
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Dr Siemionow said the procedure could alter the life of severe burns victims and believes those who were facially disfigured should be allowed to weigh up the risks themselves.
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This part of the old town has been disfigured by ugly new buildings.
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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
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The walls had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded from them.
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Many of the wounded had been badly disfigured.
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It had rained in the night; a light wind scudded across the pools in the tarmac and dark streaks disfigured the windowless concrete façade.
GRACE
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See L’Anandryne in Mirabeau’s Erotika Biblion, where Antoinette Bourgnon laments the undoubling which disfigured the work of God, producing monsters incapable of independent self-reproduction like the vegetable kingdom.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The gardens are now a mixture of municipal bedding and 19C specimen trees, all somewhat disfigured by eye-level lollipop lighting.
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Nevertheless, his book carries in it a certain large suggestion; it contains many excellent observations; its tone is unexceptionable; the style is firm and clear, though heavy and disfigured by such intolerable barbarisms as "commence to" walk, talk, or the like, -- the use of the infinitive instead of the participle after _commence_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864
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And in 1996 when Paddy said that Parliament had become "A rotten mess…a dishevelled, disfigured old corpse of what was once called the Mother of Parliaments.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Victims can be left with disfigured or shrivelled limbs.
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His face is disfigured for 24 hours.
The Sun
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So Jesus was not so disfigured that he seemed less then human; still more importantly, in difference to the Servant, Jesus had the public career, he was known, and his suffering was not constantly accentuated, but it came in the end culminating in his crucifixion; and most of all, in difference to the mythologem of Suffering Servant, Jesus 'career, as seen by his contemporaries immediately after his sacrificial death, ended in a complete failure.
Expecting Rain
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The roadside can be beautiful with the fresh green of the grass, until it is disfigured by some vandals as they pass.
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While off work, he had an accident that disfigured his face.
Times, Sunday Times
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A similar resistance was exhibited when Jenner introduced his great improvement, vaccination; yet a century ago it was the exception to see a face unpitted by smallpox -- now it is the exception to see one so disfigured.
History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
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Over the years, as Boba had appeared in the "Expanded Universe" novels, the occasional reference had been made to his maskless visage being ugly, or unappealing, or...well, I forget the exact wording, but I don't recall him ever being explicitly described as "disfigured" until this novel.
Archive 2006-09-10
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And in a railroad underpass near Exit 29 a curious disfigured hubcap like a skull neatly sheared in half.
FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
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The truth is that in an age of huge political upheaval, those who lived long enough to welcome the restoration of the monarchy, such as the disfigured William Davenant or Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, did at least have one thing in common: They were survivors rather than reprobates.
Pens at the Ready
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‘When a body decomposes in water, it becomes completely disfigured,’ he continues.
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His face became disfigured, all blotchy and lumpy, truly monstrous, and he began to develop ulcers all over inside.
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Too often… village greens are neglected and become rank with unmown grass and weeds, or trodden bare, used as dumps for rubbish and disfigured with litter.
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She released pictures yesterday showing her disfigured face in the hope that witnesses will come forward.
Times, Sunday Times
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It records that the lineside across much of the network is ‘currently disfigured not only by general litter and waste but by detritus of specific railway origin’.
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As a result, his face remained disfigured, with the left eye positioned too low and left cheek more prominent than the right one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Children hurled abuse at him and even attacked him because of a rare condition which has left him disfigured.
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His face was horribly disfigured, lipless, so that he had to clench the cigarette between the few rotting teeth still in his mouth.
Gideon’s war
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Karen suffered facial and hand injuries, a broken leg and a ruptured bladder, and is likely to be permanently disfigured.
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And it clicked straight away that Simon thought he was disfigured.
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His facial expression never changed when I touched those terrible marks, and put my fingertips to his disfigured, discoloured, swollen ears.
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Because of my disfigured body I chose to swim when there was no chance of bumping into anyone I knew.
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Wannabe ‘Americans’ had come to the New World to escape the trammels of established churches and feudalism which disfigured early modern Europe.
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Rolando brushed the back of his hand across his upper lip where the scar disfigured his face.
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I like how lefties keep throwing out "disfigured", like the fact that McCain's wife wasn't hot anymore is what REALLY makes his leaving her bad.
"The incumbent president has approval ratings somewhere between Robert Mugabe and the ebola virus."
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But thick, ropelike knots disfigured him and made it difficult to talk.
Jacob Knospler: 'I'm a Marine. I Had to Go In and Help Them.'
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As a result, his face remained disfigured, with the left eye positioned too low and left cheek more prominent than the right one.
Times, Sunday Times
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The dingy white wall was relieved by groups of barbarous weapons -- Thibetan daggers, a pair of wicked-looking kookries, the jezail and Brown Bess of Border tribesmen, and the murderous Afghan knife, whose triangular two-foot blade has disfigured too many British uniforms.
The Great Amulet
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I think the reader would be amused if he could see the papers on my desk as I write all this, the mangled and disfigured pages, the experimental arrangements of notes, the sheets of suggestions balanced in constellations, the blottesque intellectual battlegrounds over which
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