Presentable vs Blemished - What's the difference?
presentable | blemished |
In good enough shape that someone or something can be shown to other people, tidy, attractive
:* Before we go out, let me just go to the washroom and make myself presentable .
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
(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 adjectives the difference between presentable and blemished
is that presentable is presentable (able to be presented) while blemished is having blemishes; flawed.As a verb blemished is
(blemish).presentable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints. When they were all quite presentable they followed the soldier girl into a big room where the Witch Glinda sat upon a throne of rubies.
Derived terms
* presentably * unpresentableblemished
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(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.
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- 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.”
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- 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.