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“This is now the third attempt to deface this sacred memorial and turn it into a vanity project for one man’s ego,” Beatty’s attorneys Norm Eisen and Nathaniel Zelinsky said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

"The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool," Burgum posted on X. "We won't back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments."

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

He even intends to deface the entire White House complex with a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, Versailles as reimagined by Tony Soprano.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025

"I know that all rightminded Mancunians will be saddened that anyone would use this horrific, offensive language and deface this mural in the Gay Village. It is totally unacceptable," he added.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2024

“Don’t you know it is against the law to deface a passport?”

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

In another video, Sweeney defaces an American Eagle billboard that reads “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans,” crossing out the word “jeans” and replacing it with “genes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025

“I consider it very serious, unworthy and a sign of great incivility when a tourist defaces one of the most famous places in the world,” he said on Twitter.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

She then strips and defaces a portrait of her husband.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2018

The twist: Huckins defaces these replicas with cyber-slang text and smartphone icons, painted as neatly as the portraits themselves.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2017

As winter always defaces and erases green summer, so fares it with unstable love in man and woman.

From Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

The artwork is largely undisturbed however its plinth has been defaced with a spray-painted tag.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

But on Monday, vandals scratched the star, which was dedicated in 1984, leaving Parton's name badly defaced, with video on social media showing the damage.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

No one entertains the idea that one person’s graffitied tribute to a male gladiator might have been defaced by giving the picture breasts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

In County Tyrone, there is a Prince Andrew Crescent in Moygashel - the sign for which has been defaced in the past.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025

Ivan managed to tear his eyes away from the defaced fairy.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

Who knew that defacing images of Satan was a popular cultural practice at the time?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

San Francisco police have arrested a man accused of defacing the famed Pink Triangle, a symbol of LGBTQ+ rights that is installed annually during Pride Month on top of the city’s landmark Twin Peaks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

Other climate protesters around the world have taken to defacing works of art hanging in museums, but a spokesman for the New York group said that it had not engaged in that particular protest tactic.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

The following year he was sent to prison after refusing to pay fines for defacing English-only road signs.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2023

It was defacing, it was taking away someone’s face.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood