0 past simple and past participle of blemish --
1 to spoil something: --
This latest revelation has seriously blemished the governor's reputation.
They may be angled or depressed at both ends, ridged or ornamented, spotted or blemished.
It is worth putting the record straight, because we do not want his reputation blemished for the entirely pure and philanthropic measures that he promoted so ably.
A daily newspaper which is not published every day, and when it is published is blemished by jumbled words and missing lines, is an amateur abomination.
Sefton had that sort of record to fall back on, but the proposals have blemished it to some extent.
That objective is acknowledged by most people to be sensible, but it will not be advanced by a clause which is blemished by so manifest and unwarranted an absurdity.
It is written by non-believers in a very understanding way and is blemished, in my view, by only one extraordinary conclusion.
My track record on this subject is rather blemished, because, in 1986.
Nevertheless, we feel obliged to say that it is blemished by an element of distorted reasoning.
