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A rude decoration inscribed on rocks or walls.

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Usage examples (35)
  • This kind of graffiti is ruining many places in Kuwait and one of them is where I live.
  • And our last stop is, play the highlight of the "Express Yourself" tour is what we call the graffiti wall.
  • They still got graffiti from the colonial days on them.
  • On stone walls, there is graffiti from the French Revolution.
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  • "Graffiti" (wall drawings that are usually a defacement) artists rarely use "graphite" (a form of carbon used in pencils). Note: A "graphito" is a single wall drawing.
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