Synonyms for marred
marred

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1. marred

   Synonyms:
   bad, blemished, corrupt, corrupted, defaced, defective, deficient, deformed, fallible, faulty, imperfect, incomplete, inferior, insufficient, meager, perverted, poor, ruined, scant, short, spoiled, worthless

   Antonyms:
   absolute, accurate, blameless, complete, completed, consummate, correct, entire, faultless, finished, holy, ideal, immaculate, perfect, sinless, spotless, stainless, unblemished, undefiled

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1. marred, scarredadjective

   blemished by injury or rough wear

   "the scarred piano bench"; "walls marred by graffiti"

   Synonyms:
   scarred

   Antonyms:
   unblemished, unmutilated, unmarred

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1. List of paraphrases for "marred":

   tainted, vitiated, tarnished, ruined, marked, tempered, overshadowed, flawed

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1. Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun-Times, November 5, 2001:

   Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

2. John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

   The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

3. F. Scott Fitzgerald:

   The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

4. Theodore Roosevelt:

   The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

5. Mark Twain:

   We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.