Sentence examples for to defacement from inspiring English sources
noun
An act of defacing; an instance of visibly marring or disfiguring something.
- Some consider the defacement of the Sphinx to be the most egregious crime of Napolean's campaigns.
In other words, the blank music paper was open to defacement by the public.
Then there is the ultimate and, in every respect, saddest shrine: Jim Morrison's grave at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, a veritable idiot magnet, subject over the years to defacement, orgies, devil-worship rites and the attempted robbery of the singer's remains.
Prior to the defacement of the building in September, local students were working to restore the school and open it as a museum.
Authorities responded to the defacement by erecting warning signs and metal fencing around the rock face and declaring it a monument.
Some have compared Duffy's crime to the defacement of a real memorial; actually, he was scribbling on the kind of edifice that is all too often, thanks to Facebook's raison d'etre, inherently degraded.
Update 5.: There is speculation at the moment that this may be a DNS redirect, which means that the Twitter.com domain has been redirected to the defacement page.
The article was called The Anatomy of The Twitter Attack, and today we unfortunately find ourselves with a sequel to that post as the Twitter DNS servers were compromised last night and the site was redirected to a defacement page.
My neighbours and I have all fallen victim to the defacement of our homes with hideous and indecipherable graffiti; we have suffered the drunken destruction of our private property, including rainwater down-pipes, garden fences, motor vehicles, and even an incident involving a broken living-room window.
In contrast to these defacements, he said, stood the large scale theft of documents and data.
So I have some proof and confidence in connecting this guy to the defacements.
It looks like something Jake and Dinos Chapman might do if they turned their hand to the creative defacement of illuminated manuscripts: the Viz-style gargoyle just to the left of the plainchant notation on page 77 of the nearly 700-year-old Bangor Pontifical, one of the treasures of the Welsh medieval world.
