The phrase "a defacement of" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe something that has been spoiled or marred in some way. It can also be used in a legal context to refer to the act of damaging or vandalizing property. Example: The graffiti on the historic building was a defacement of the city's cultural heritage.
It was onto such a green that Trump drove his cart ― he looks to be in no shape to walk the course ― and that is not only considered a moral crime in the world of golf, but an obvious defacement of grass meticulously preserved so a competent player can "read the green" and plan his or her final putts.
But the city had another way of describing them: an illegal defacement of the sidewalks.
The micropenis is a defacement or a diminishment of this pure presence; in other words, a disruption of phallic coherence that can be coded as evil.
Keys was convicted last October of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), in a bizarre case that led to the temporary defacement of a story about a tax bill on the LA Times website.
Muslim-Americans in Louisiana's Shreveport-Bossier City metropolitan area reported the defacement of a local mosque by a man in a blue pickup truck, the most recent incident in a string of possible hate crimes following the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Some - including the defacement of a Harvard University website last year to post a picture of Assad in military uniform -- have been claimed by the "Syrian Electronic Army".
In the postwar period, aesthetics were often a catalyst for the defacement of art.
Most damaging was the defacement of a Rothko mural with permanent marker last October at the Tate Modern, which has required months of restoration.
Duchamp's defacement of a cherished treasure is insolent, yet if it causes anger it does so not because it is attacking Leonardo - who is beyond that, anyway?
