marred
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Dear Amy: "Marred in Maine" called out her husband, "Steve," for compensating his adult daughter for work she hadn't done in the family's business, while Marred basically worked without pay.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2021
Marred by negative reviews and COVID-19 concerns, the film fell short of expectations and collected a muted $7.5 million from 3,365 North American theaters in its debut.
From Reuters • Sep. 26, 2021
Marred by a simplistic view of history and the timber industry, Proulx otherwise plays to her strengths, with colorful characters and graceful descriptions of the landscape in this woodsman’s version of manifest destiny.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2016
Marred before release by being unexpectedly swept up in the scandal around last year's hacked Sony emails, the film is disjointed and uneven, cramming too much story into its running time.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2015
Alas, the wild cherry, its sweet flowers are marred, Marred are the sweet flowers, forlorn on the spray!”
From Japanese Fairy Tales by James, Grace
Vocabulary lists containing marred
"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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50 Great Words from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
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