blemished 1 of 2

past tense of blemish
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blemished

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adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of blemished
Verb
Its blemished surface hints at its violent origin deep within the Earth's mantle. Arkansas State Parks, Arkansas Online, 19 Aug. 2025 That’s because pantries like Friendly Hands often receive offers from truck drivers to unload pallets of food, like blemished fruit rejected from grocery stores, but without a loading dock, pantries sometimes have to refuse or are unable to store the items. Laura Tillman, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2025 Until the world contains only liberal democracies, Washington can hardly avoid seeking blemished friends. Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024 Throop returned to his hometown in 1990 to take stock of its blemished environment. Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022 More to the point, where does Ohio State belong when ranking an increasing list of blemished records? Nathan Baird, cleveland, 10 Oct. 2021 Ensuring that doesn't happen will require finding better ways to clean up blemished images — and that takes time and money. Jackie Wattles, CNN, 2 July 2020 But perhaps the bigger question is how someone with such a blemished resume got the job in the first place. Ramona Giwargis, The Mercury News, 5 May 2017
Adjective
Reputational damage occurs when a business’s name is blemished in some manner. Emily Reynolds, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blemished
Verb
  • The disruptions come amid a WNBA season in which multiple games were marred by the objects making appearances on the court.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Each death was devastating to relatives and friends left behind, and the first decades of the twentieth century were marred by individual grief on a global scale.
    Alice Vernon September 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Reportedly, 3 lakh acres of farmlands have been damaged and according to the Punjab state government half a million people across 23 districts have been affected by floods.
    Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre will return to its home base, the Warwick Theatre, next week for its first production there since a fire badly damaged the historic venue 19 months ago.
    Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In my experience, redeeming a broken industry requires regaining consumer trust by delivering empathy, transparency, and a process that works for clients, especially in a space that has historically worked against the interests of consumers.
    Brandon Aversano, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Across the eastern Baltic states (an area pertaining to modern-day Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), there are even more examples of broken tools in Stone Age burials.
    Sarah Durn, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Buggs’ public defender also suggested that Alameda County prosecutors’ case was tainted by that bias.
    Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
  • That Anniston’s offer is tainted is a given; that Charles is making a deal with a very bad man is obvious.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The next day, Encarnacion hit a 442-foot homer in his second at-bat of the game, then injured his hamstring in his third at-bat as Encarnacion tried running out an infield single.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The police said 26 officers were injured, including four seriously.
    Vitalii Yalahuzian, USA Today, 14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The first season concludes with patriarch Horace Bellaire marrying Kimmie from his hospital bed, leaving her his inheritance and shocking his spoiled heirs.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Kayla Blanton is a freelance lifestyle writer, editor, and reviewer of seven years and a proud cat mom to three very spoiled rescues.
    Kayla Blanton, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Inside the retro-futuristic Discoveryland area of Disneyland Paris, a full-size Star Wars X-Wing fighter sits on a silver and blue platform which looks like it has been weathered and stained from battles.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Doing some research on other things my car needs (truly the theme for this week) and decide a seat cover would be good, since it’s been stained a bit with annoying food spills.
    R29 Team, Refinery29, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Define the steps employees must take if a device is lost or compromised.
    Mike Rosen, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • If compromised, malicious radios inside them could be used for simultaneous outages or covert data collection, the FHWA warned.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025

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