disfigurement

Example Sentences

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It is understood the boy has since recovered, but has been left with permanent disfigurements.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2024

Dr. Erez Dayan, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon in Reno, Nevada, said he had treated dozens of patients with these disfigurements.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2023

Changing Faces launched their #IAmNotYourVillain campaign to shift the narrative around visible difference and disability, culminating in the British Film Institute stopping funding for movies in which villains appear with facial disfigurements in 2018.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2021

For this is not the comedy of deracination it at first seems; it’s a comedy of re-racination, of discovering one’s authentic self by stripping away the disfigurements of ambition.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2018

To sum up, the cathedral at Cologne has had the good fortune to have been carried out in a pure and distinct German form of Gothic without the interpolation of any outr� disfigurements.

From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)