deface

Example Sentences

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Those laws make it a crime to assault someone or deface property because of race, religion or nationality, and increase punishments for other crimes when committed based on similar types of bias.

From Seattle Times • May 8, 2024

If we build it, they will deface it.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024

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

Jack also flat-out tells Keeley she's jealous — so much so she's willing to deface a first edition Jane Austen.

From Salon • Apr. 27, 2023

“Don’t you know it is against the law to deface a passport?”

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck