deface
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She’s an aesthete run amok, determined to deface anything that doesn’t live up to her impossible standards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
He even intends to deface the entire White House complex with a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, Versailles as reimagined by Tony Soprano.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025
Donya says people in Tehran continue to deface government billboards and to write "#Mahsa" and "Woman, Life, Freedom" - the rallying cry of the protests - on walls, mostly on the subway.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2023
One survey published in November of last year suggested public support of climate protests may dip after demonstrations such as pretending to deface art.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 19, 2023
“Well, no one said not to deface the mountain.”
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Their fight with the Sharks comes into focus when the gang defaces a wall mural of the flag of Puerto Rico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
She then strips and defaces a portrait of her husband.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2018
“It’s also going to be the last time that anybody defaces the chapel on our campus,” he said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2017
The twist: Huckins defaces these replicas with cyber-slang text and smartphone icons, painted as neatly as the portraits themselves.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2017
For sleeping sound in death's embraces, On their clay-cold beds they lie, Death, grim death, alas defaces, Youth and pleasure which must die.
From The Battle of Bunkers-Hill by Moses, Montrose Jonas
No one entertains the idea that one person’s graffitied tribute to a male gladiator might have been defaced by giving the picture breasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
The video of the defaced artwork sparked anger on social media, with many saying that the sight made them "uneasy" and that "women are not safe even in graffiti".
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026
But his tombstone was defaced on Thursday morning, local authorities said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
This isn't the first instance of Gandhi's statue being defaced in the UK.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
“Someone came into our house and defaced it,” Freddie said, staring at me.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
Who knew that defacing images of Satan was a popular cultural practice at the time?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
They have all issued public warnings against damaging or defacing banknotes when making these bouquets of cash.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2026
The property crimes follow the much-publicized defacing of downtown high-rises with graffiti.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024
But Navarro couldn’t save Julie, and Leah assumes that Danvers is not on her side, even when her stepmother gets her out of trouble for defacing the mining office.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
“I see you have been defacing more good parchment, Yollo.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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