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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
blemish \blem"ish\, v. t. imp.  p. p. blemished; p. pr. 
   vb. n. blemishing. oe. blemissen, blemishen, of. blemir,
   blesmir, to strike, injure, soil, f. bl^emir to grow pale,
   fr. of. bleme, blesme, pale, wan, f. bl^eme, prob. fr. icel
   bl=aman the livid color of a wound, fr. bl=ar blue; akin
   to e. blue. of. blemir properly signifies to beat one black
   and blue, and to render blue or dirty. see blue.
   1. to mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything
      which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make
      defective, either the body or mind.
      1913 webster

            sin is a soil which blemisheth the beauty of thy
            soul.                                 --brathwait.
      1913 webster

   2. to tarnish, as reputation or character; to defame.
      1913 webster

            there had nothing passed between us that might
            blemish reputation.                   --oldys.
      1913 webster
see also:
blemished blemishing blue 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
blemished
     adj 1: marred by imperfections ant: unblemished
     2: having a blemish or flaw; "a flawed diamond" syn: flawed
see also:
unblemished flawed 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
108 moby thesaurus words for "blemished":
   adulterated, bandy, bandy-legged, beautiless, bloated, blotted,
   bowlegged, cacophonic, cacophonous, checked, cicatrized,
   club-footed, cracked, crazed, damaged, defaced, defective,
   deficient, deformed, disfigured, distorted, dwarfed, dysphemistic,
   dysphemized, erroneous, fallible, faulty, flatfooted, flawed,
   found wanting, grotesque, homely, ill-made, ill-proportioned,
   ill-shaped, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure,
   inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inelegant, inexact, keloidal,
   kinked, knock-kneed, lacking, makeshift, malformed, marred,
   mediocre, misbegotten, misproportioned, misshapen, mixed,
   monstrous, mutilated, not perfect, off, out of shape, partial,
   patchy, pigeon-toed, pimpled, pimply, plain, pug-nosed, rachitic,
   rickety, scabbed, scabby, scarified, scarred, short,
   short on looks, simous, sketchy, snub-nosed, split, spoiled,
   stumpy, swaybacked, talipedic, truncated, twisted, uglified, ugly,
   ugly as hell, ugly as sin, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful,
   uncomely, undeveloped, uneven, unfinished, unhandsome, unlovely,
   unperfected, unpleasing, unpretty, unsightly, unsound, unthorough,
   wanting, warped





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