maculate
Example Sentences
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But his limitations were a virtue because his target was so big -- and so maculate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under such colours.
From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William
Of this half-hundred a few are used in Shakespeare, but not at present, as verbs; thus, to maculate, to miracle, to mud, to mist, to mischief, to moral—also merchandized and musicked.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various
The room was long, dark, narrow, slovenly, spaced with tables on which were maculate cloths and lamps with faded shades.
From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.