His mother — her bones scattered — her name defaced — her rest annulled!.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Forsyte 'Change] Reference

I don't understand the motives behind the people who "defaced" the stain, though.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary, graffiti, brown paint, and "Engine Shampoo."] Reference

Besides, every true book lover knows that in three hundred years, what was "defaced" becomes "historical.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates Of Sleep]

But a blog is meant to be "defaced" by words, yes?.    From Wordnik.com.  [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference

Paul finally noticed that I had "defaced" my new office furniture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comics Worth Reading] Reference

Last night it was reported that Lady Gaga arrived in Tokyo with a "defaced" Hermes Birkin bag tattooed with Japanese text.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fast Company] Reference

Be that as it may, the character is defaced by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference

Those shields defaced, who heard those hauberks white.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference

Vandals defaced and dehorned several of them this summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Mr. Maclin's lawn also was defaced by many unsightly holes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

“Wife, haue you not defaced your jewels, to make this armure?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference

Most of them are richly ornamented, although many have been defaced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

On the 21st an inhuman action defaced the ordinary programme of warfare.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference

No Queene more ioye hath tasted, yet woe my io - yes hath quite defaced.    From Wordnik.com.  [A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde] Reference

Now the walls of Hogwarts are defaced with dire warnings written in blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mild About 'Harry'] Reference

The man who killed her also defaced her, in the most glaring sense of that term.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Face in The Crowd] Reference

When people say a site has been "hacked," the correct term is usually "defaced".    From Wordnik.com.  [What's a Hacker's Biggest Fear?] Reference

They smashed "idols", defaced statues, demolished stained glass, ravaged rood screens.    From Wordnik.com.  [The pope is coming. Liberals, be glad] Reference

Ccoder defaced the home page with text declaring Taiwan an "inseparable part of China.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyber Rattling] Reference

If you have to choose between saving face and being saved, but defaced, go with the former.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monster] Reference

I would solemnly warn any one who does not like his books defaced not to lend them to Chesterton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference

Thirty Japanese government Web sites were defaced -- one with gruesome photos of Chinese massacre victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyber Rattling] Reference

(Two of them were shown at the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1965 and were almost immediately defaced by the crowd.).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Daddy Of Light And Space] Reference

They defaced government buildings, shattered gravestones in Serb cemeteries and overturned heroic monuments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference

At left, a defaced picture of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III at Victoria Park, where the rally started.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hong Kong Rallies for Bus Victims] Reference

Being taken before the civil war, they contain all those which were destroyed or defaced by the Parliament army.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

His style, sometimes defaced by affectation and pedantry, has a lively smartness not unfrequently rising into wit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference

Modern taste has defaced the porch where stood the one, and erected a shapeless structure on the site of the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference

The windows were patched, the walls shattered, the furniture defaced and broken, and every thing was going to ruins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference

And the letters of the maker's name stamped on it grew distinct, and the word "Congress," half defaced, and the figures "64.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Indian's Hand 1892] Reference

           We made our way past the stone statues of heroes or villains in the town square, defaced but not destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love in War Time] Reference

The same site had been invaded earlier by "Bronc Buster," a hacker who defaced the home page with the words "bulls -- t propaganda.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Firewall Of China] Reference

It's unclear how many bikes were hit, but bloggers and Tweeters gleefully posted images of defaced bikes at locations across London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bicycle Mischief Targets Barclays] Reference

In 1998, when Beijing set up its own Web site ostensibly devoted to human rights, Cyberkiller and his friends defaced it within days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyberkiller On The Loose] Reference

Reports at the time that Cameron's uniform had been defaced and that hostile notes had been left in her locker turned out to be false.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacked beefeater paid compensation by Tower of London] Reference

Teutonic way to adopt his whimsicality, shorn now of sentimentalism, and to build success for their wares on remembrance of a defaced idol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference