deface
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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
Those laws make it a crime to assault someone or deface property because of race, religion or nationality, and increase punishments for other crimes when committed based on similar types of bias.
From Seattle Times • May 8, 2024
If we build it, they will deface it.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2024
Critics have said the plan would deface areas of outstanding national beauty by adding more pylons - the huge steel structures which have been accused of blighting landscapes.
From BBC • Mar. 18, 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
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