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“This is now the third attempt to deface this sacred memorial and turn it into a vanity project for one man’s ego,” Beatty’s attorneys Norm Eisen and Nathaniel Zelinsky said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

"The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool," Burgum posted on X. "We won't back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments."

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 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

"I know that all rightminded Mancunians will be saddened that anyone would use this horrific, offensive language and deface this mural in the Gay Village. It is totally unacceptable," he added.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2024

“Well, no one said not to deface the mountain.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

“I consider it very serious, unworthy and a sign of great incivility when a tourist defaces one of the most famous places in the world,” he said on Twitter.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

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

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

His the stainless shield No shame defaces and no envy mars!

From Hero Tales from American History by Theodore Roosevelt

But on Monday, vandals scratched the star, which was dedicated in 1984, leaving Parton's name badly defaced, with video on social media showing the damage.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Equipped with super glue and expanding foam, the mystery vigilante has defaced dozens of newly installed parking meters across North Berwick.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

In her post, the teenager said she passed the murals daily and seeing the black silhouettes defaced with white markings filled her "with anger and disgust".

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

“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

Later that year, in October, an Extinction Rebellion activist was ordered to pay more than £1,500 for defacing the statue by painting "racist" on its plinth during a climate protest.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

The property crimes follow the much-publicized defacing of downtown high-rises with graffiti.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024

Other climate protesters around the world have taken to defacing works of art hanging in museums, but a spokesman for the New York group said that it had not engaged in that particular protest tactic.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

“I see you have been defacing more good parchment, Yollo.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin