maculate

variants or maculated

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Adjective
  • His powerful and begrimed hands cradled each item as delicately as a bird’s egg before squaring it away.
    Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
  • In a theatre that admits no light or sound from the outside world, the audience watches as poor, begrimed laborers and criminals are pushed onstage to shoot their kids and stab their teachers.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
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“Maculate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maculate. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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