blot

Like Amalek, the Biblical evil-doer whose name we are enjoined to “blot out.”

But we must remember not only to not forget, but to blot out the enemy—not mercifully, but through genocide.

The scandal was “a serious blot on my reputation,” he complained to Leveson.

Think of its twisted outline as a Rorschach blot for a society—maybe a civilization.

The speech did irreparable damage to Powell's reputation, and he has since called it "a blot on his record."

I am, I am he that blot out thy iniquities for my own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

It needs better evidence to stamp this solitary suggestion of a blot on the clear scutcheon of Douglas.

Men surged forward to close in and blot out the glow from the killer's fingers.

It is the blot on Richard Feverel, for instance, that it begins to end well; and then tricks you and ends ill.

The failure to recognize the sanctity of marriage is the great blot on the system of Confucius as a scheme of morals.