What is "disfiguring"

Usage examples of "disfiguring".

He was picking a bit of disfiguring fluff from his coat sleeve when the door opened and Henry Rogers came upon him.

I noticed particularly one girl who would have been pretty, even striking, had not one side of her face been almost covered by a great, disfiguring strawberry birthmark.

The last thing I saw before lapsing into unconsciousness was a smile of evil triumph disfiguring Jack Seward's handsome face.

Of my disfiguring marks, only the double gash on my right instep where I had stepped on a bottle wading remained.

Kris took her station at the controls and suddenly Zainal strode up the ramp, spitting out the disfiguring pads, muttering under his breath and snarling up at her but winking as he passed on his way to the bridge.

Would she feel some sense of familiarity, despite the disfiguring swelling and the bandages that swathed bun?

It wasn't a disfiguring scar at all, just a straight little slash, as precise as a surgeon's cut.

Over her nose, just a trifle above the line of her eyebrows, was a peculiar red mark, a sore, which was very disfiguring, as though it were hard to heal.

I had heard of the beauty doctors who promise to give one a skin as soft and clear as a baby'sand often, by their inexpert use of lotions and chemicals, succeed in ruining the skin and disfiguring the patient for life.

A great practical Scheme, rising in sombre bricks and mortar through a disfiguring fog, blocked all the avenues of the future.

As she put aside her cloak, and disclosed to me the pallor of her face and the disfiguring red about her gentle eyes, telling of tears and sleeplessness, all my own trouble seemed to vanish in the contemplation of her affliction.

The disfiguring scar and flap of skin that covered his empty eye socket were shriveled and sunk deeper into the shadow of his overhanging brow ridges.