He objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
His disfigurement is hidden by his father, the king, and he is tossed into Elantris. From Wordnik.com. [2010 February 16 « The BookBanter Blog] Reference
Anakin dons the big, black suit to hide his disfigurement from the lightsaber duels with Obi Wan. From Wordnik.com. [SW Episode III "Spoilers"] Reference
Certain disfigurement and probable death followed for many individuals who in the normal course of events might not have caught the disease at all. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to the Editor] Reference
In finding that a disfigurement is severe, plaintiff's injury must greatly alter the appearance of the face from its appearance before the accident. From Wordnik.com. [NY Court of Appeals] Reference
There was nothing that a grown-up would call disfigurement - except for that total disfigurement which is death itself. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
His disfigurement is the result of both his inborn condition and that damaging therapy. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
Down in the Phantom’s lair, Christine confronts the Phantom with the fact that his true disfigurement is that of his soul, not his face. From Wordnik.com. [I Phantom | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference
Medicis hasn't received reports of serious side effects such as disfigurement or inability to control facial muscles associated with its products, said. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
Perhaps his own hideous disfigurement was involved. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
He explained to Tarnhorst what had caused Brand's disfigurement. From Wordnik.com. [Anchorite] Reference
It very seldom causes lameness, but is a serious disfigurement and blemish. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
A greater disfigurement of the female form could scarcely have been devised. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
It is true that the change is less of a disfigurement than I feared -- ahem. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 7, 1891] Reference
In response, he started using tiny metal meshes to conceal the disfigurement. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor Is On] Reference
Papa poured all the vials of his wrath upon Paul, -- to his own sore disfigurement. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
And the outcome-serious disfigurement for the rest of one's life-is also unthinkable. From Wordnik.com. [The Healing Touch] Reference
He was suffering from a scrofulous ulcer in the neck, and it was a hideous disfigurement. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
The triforium stage is exceedingly poor, and shows traces of more or less modern disfigurement. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
= -- These produce great disfigurement and inconvenience, and there is a risk of injury to the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference
A loose lock of hair over Mollie's low forehead covered the ugly scar that was her one disfigurement. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid] Reference
He was disappointed because he was wounded, not that he complained about his disfigurement or the pain. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Top With the Third Australian Division] Reference
I am quite certain that the scar will be merely a thin white line, and not in the least a disfigurement. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
His facial disfigurement achieved a bizarre effect which the condition of his clothes served to heighten. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
Garvey believe he won the medal, tells him nothing of Ellen's disfigurement, and brings about their marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
It was not the mere disfigurement of the angry, purplish scars that twisted her mouth and puckered her cheeks. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
In the majority of instances, the disfigurement which attends bog spavin is the principal objectionable feature. From Wordnik.com. [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference
I am much mistaken in Miss TROTTER if she will attach the slightest importance to a mere temporary -- er -- disfigurement. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 26, 1891] Reference
Their features were of the pronounced African type, but, notwithstanding this disfigurement, were not unpleasing in appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
Just think of it! that sweet creature must have given up at least two hours of every day to this disfigurement of her pretty head. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859] Reference
Cold sore often gives rise to burning, itching, or tingling, the disfigurement usually causing more annoyance, however, than the pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)] Reference
The doors and gate walls of both gates are smashed through, but all along, despite serious disfigurement, the parapet is strong still. From Wordnik.com. [The Insurrection in Paris] Reference
For two weeks it seemed as if the child must die, but she did not, and soon, unconscious of her disfigurement, began to play and smile. From Wordnik.com. [Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War] Reference
Its dark disfigurement increased the somber gravity of his face, sunburned and wind-hardened as any ranger's who rode that prairie waste. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Art has therefore its law; and eccentricity, though sometimes promising as a mere trait of youth, is only a disfigurement to maturer years. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
When this does not amount to an actual disfigurement, it is still a blemish which prevents many a young girl from being classed as a beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Spanish Life in Town and Country] Reference
One year, the sacred outlines of the human figure are protected against disfigurement by an ardent group of young classicists in Grecian draperies. From Wordnik.com. [Turn About Eleanor] Reference
New Yorkers it has no more venerable memory, in its disfigurement and disguise, than that furnished by its use, for a time, as the city post-office. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880.] Reference
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