Blemished vs Smudged - What's the difference?
blemished | smudged |
(blemish)
Having blemishes; flawed.
* 2001 , Robert Weissberg, Chapter 18: Academic Tyranny: The Tale and the Lessons'', Stuart S. Nagel (editor), ''Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation ,
* 2008 , Ritchie Devon Watson, Normans and Saxons: Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of the American Civil War ,
* 2010 , Holly S. Ruddock, Life in Your Losses: Transformation Through Trials ,
As verbs the difference between blemished and smudged
is that blemished is (blemish) while smudged is (smudge).As adjectives the difference between blemished and smudged
is that blemished is having blemishes; flawed while smudged is blurred as by being rubbed.blemished
English
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(en adjective)page 111,
- Stated sharply, today?s centers of higher learning are more blemished than superficial appearances suggest, and what often seems “democratic” is little more than contrived public displays.
page 65,
- One of them in fact singled out Rebecca, not the marmoreal Rowena, as the novel?s most blemished character. “She is,” he complained, “too near perfection.”
page 186,
- The most blemished' life will not keep His love from pouring out. It is the ' blemished and the marked, the hurting and the rejected that stirs this love in Him.