marred
/mɑːd/ adjective C2- Spoiled; harmed or damaged.
- Spoilt, cosseted, overly indulged, soft.
From the library
“Do you see,” said Caderousse, “all my happiness is marred by one thought?”
The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry, the controlling brain of the underworld, a brain which might have made or marred the destiny of nations—that’s the man!
But her triumph was marred by the fact that Gilbert congratulated her heartily before the whole school.
There was something subtly wrong with the face, some coarseness of expression, some hardness, perhaps, of eye, some looseness of lip which marred its perfect beauty.
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