What is "defacements"

Usage examples of "defacements".

Juan widened his vision, allowed deviations and defacements in the view.

Here and there were subtle defacements, the largest boulders morphing into trollishness.

He had even corrected library books, embellishing their margins with ¶s and lc's and s, which he viewed not as defacements but as "improvements.

Virginal paperbacks, their margins a tabula rasa for narcissistic scribbles, were cheap enough to inspire minimal guilt when I wrote in them and bland enough to accept my defacements without complaint.

A row of eight metallic cylinders not unlike the one I'd woken up in yesterday were ranked along one wall, but where my birthing tube had been unpainted and scarred with the million tiny defacements of frequent use, these units carried a thick gloss of cream paint with yellow trim around the transparent observation plate and the various functional protrusions.

Defiant at first, Inky swore he would never stop his defacements, but being admitted to the Gang, a place where he could finally belong, worked wonders.

The church burnings seemed to feed off one another, much as a rash of synagogue defacements had in 1992.