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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unblemished
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
record
▪ He assured us all that those who wished to dissect it later would only find an unblemished record.
▪ The five paramilitary officers from the Rathcoole district had each an unblemished record as a law-abiding citizen.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unblemished skin
▪ an unblemished record of service to the community
▪ an unblemished safety record
▪ He has established an unblemished reputation for accuracy.
▪ Lord Edwards is retiring after an unblemished career that has lasted thirty years.
▪ Mrs Falconer had an unblemished record of 27 years service with the company.
▪ She is a woman with an unblemished reputation of fairness and competence.
▪ The report stated that Stewart's character had remained completely unblemished.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He assured us all that those who wished to dissect it later would only find an unblemished record.
▪ How can taxonomy work if its subjects can no longer claim an unblemished identity?
▪ Last Sunday you believed a statue of the Virgin Mary - a white unblemished statue - moved towards you.
▪ Only unblemished, healthy produce will keep for long, and it is important to handle crops gently.
▪ Only if you guard the unblemished original can you regenerate a clean copy.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unblemished

Unblemished \Un*blem"ished\, a. Not blemished; pure; spotless; as, an unblemished reputation or life.
--Addison.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unblemished

c.1300, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of blemish (v.). Originally in moral sense; material sense is attested from mid-15c.

Wiktionary
unblemished

a. 1 faultless or lacking blemishes. 2 Free from evil or corruption. alt. 1 faultless or lacking blemishes. 2 Free from evil or corruption.

WordNet
unblemished

adj. free from physical or moral spots or stains; "an unblemished record"; "an unblemished complexion" [ant: blemished]

Usage examples of "unblemished".

That he was a blameless solicitor of unblemished reputation and high moral principles, and that she need have no fear for herself or for him.

Since Miss Mannering had sent him to the rightabout, and emphatically, Johann could only conclude that her character was unblemished, and her tastes very queer.

I bring it to your hearing, so as not to say ears, I would be most happy if you would tell me if in this group, circle, and company there is to be found that most unblemished knight Don Quixote of La Manchissima, and his most squirish Panza.

And he sent out a wordless prayer for Katherine, wishing that she would be strong, hoping for her health, and that she would recover, longing for her eyes to open, for her to awaken and, unaltered and unblemished and unbruised, come to.

As Weapons worked in the chamber above to light lamps, images captured in glass emerged in a riot of color, unblemished, unfaded, and unfractured by time.

Save for a few Xican coelenterates that had been stranded on the beach by high tide, the sands were as unblemished as the mind of an embryo, washed pure by an unpolluted sea.

It was crouched on the tussocky rise, its neck craned over the water, and below, half a dozen feet from the bank, floated the reflection of the full moon, huge and silvery, an unblemished circle of light.

It was the actual body of a woman, and by what dark art the ancients had preserved that form unblemished for so many ages Conan could not even guess.

What she could see of the jades surface appeared unblemished, with neither cracks nor chips nor gouges to mar the even flow of stone.

If the most unblemished merit is not protected from this injustice, it will not be wondered at that no quarter was given to the character of an adventurer like Fathom, who, among other unlucky occurrences, had the misfortune to be recognised about this time by his two Parisian friends, Sir Stentor Stile and Sir Giles Squirrel.

The next cubicle held a black telephone, its sleek skin unblemished by touchpads, screen, or dial.

On Mars, you had one young hemisphere, smooth and unblemished, the other heavily cratered, ancient.

Seconds later we were driving the wrong way on a three-lane, one-way street, with dozens of crossing pedestrians in their unblemished long dashikis waving us back -- back, idiots!

Lilias' skin was pale as early almond blossom, unblemished, translucent.

But he hadn't been exiled here, he'd chosen this room and he'd have en dured far worse than cold drafts at night for that wondrous view that stretched unblemished by human interference.