"blighted" is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English
It is an adjective that means ruined or destroyed, or having a negative effect on something. For example, you can say "The area was blighted by poverty and violence".
Chester-le-Street showed that there's a psychological fragility about the side to complement the more obvious technical flaws that blighted the first two defeats in this series.
Not only were his side losing to a team with a reputation for flowing rugby who had instead turned up in a tactical straitjacket and kicked away most of the possession they won, rarely to any sort of effect, but Farrell had missed three successive penalties, all well within his range, and the malfunctioning of his radar blighted his general play.
Lives continue to be blighted by being denied their full expression.
For the second successive day the sun shone incessantly with no hint of the rain that had blighted the early part of the match.
"Allegations of corrupt parliamentarians have blighted the body politic in recent years but not one parliamentarian was denied natural justice," he said.
That's one hell of a lot of ayurvedic massages for those parts of the world blighted by open-cast mining.
All over Britain, there are communities and individuals who have had their lives blighted or even destroyed by economic forces over which they feel they have no control.
And then there were the racist chants that blighted so many games.
Go and talk to people living on estates blighted by anti-social behaviour.
In a boon to Athens' embattled government, it emerged last night that Russia "was willing" to consider financing a potential energy partnership that could create thousands of jobs for a nation blighted by record levels of unemployment.
