defiled
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The writer Octavio Paz, the Mexican Nobel laureate, denounced Malinche as a kind of malevolent Eve whose submission to Cortés forever defiled Mexico’s mixed identity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
In his resignation letter, he said the CCC had been "defiled", accusing the ruling Zanu-PF party of being behind the move - allegations it denied.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024
The Seleucids captured the holy Temple of Jerusalem and defiled it by erecting an altar to the Greek god Zeus inside.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 7, 2023
A Voting Rights Act reauthorization passed the Senate 85 to 8 in 1982, when Republican President Ronald Reagan called it “a strong, bipartisan message: No American’s vote shall be defiled, diluted or denied.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 19, 2021
With it he washed clean the stones that Wormtongue had defiled.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
