Marred

The bad weather marred the ceremony.

His enjoyment of the game was marred by the unruly behaviour of some of the other spectators.

The threat of terrorism has marred the lead up to the Winter Olympics.

Her triumph was marred by the fact that Gilbert congratulated her heartily before the whole school. It would have been ever so much sweeter to her if he had felt the sting of his defeat.

"O light of Troy, our refuge! why and how / this long delay? Whence comest thou again, / long-looked-for Hector? How with aching brow, / worn out by toil and death, do we behold thee now! / But oh! what dire indignity hath marred / the calmness of thy features? Tell me, why / with ghastly wounds do I behold thee scarred?"

They were bound to each other by a love stronger than any impulses which could have marred it.

Most of the confidences were unsought — frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

The December vote was marred by disorganization at many polling stations, including missing voter rolls and malfunctioning electronic voting machines that pushed the vote well into nighttime hours, forcing election officials to conduct their activities by flashlight.

In Albania, the election was marred with excessive polarized politics.

Antonio's experience on the website is marred by the cruel and unwarranted attacks he faces from other users.