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  • adverb So as to cause disfigurement.

Etymologies

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disfiguring +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Yet, now that the face was at rest, certain cavernous hollows under the eyes, and certain lines on the forehead and at the corners of the mouth, as though graven by some long fatigue, showed themselves disfiguringly.

    The Case of Richard Meynell Humphry Ward 1885

  • His fine hair, matted with blood, now hung loosely and disfiguringly over his eyes, and his pallid face and brow were covered with gore spots, the evident spatterings from the wounds of others; while a stream that issued from one side of his head attested he himself had not escaped unhurt in the cruel melee.

    Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 2 John Richardson 1824

  • His fine hair, matted with blood, now hung loosely and disfiguringly over his eyes, and his pallid face and brow were covered with gore spots, the evident spatterings from the wounds of others; while a stream that issued from one side of his head attested he himself had not escaped unhurt in the cruel melee.

    Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) John Richardson 1824

  • And while I’m on the subject of bug bears … actually … Crappy/squalid/generic/ubiquitous graffiti, disfiguringly sprayed across almost every surface of the most beautiful historic buildings in any town or city, like dogs pissing on trees, but more of a permanent fixture … and more expensive .. (

    I am a feminist, but I also believe in good manners.. 2009

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