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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

besmirched, bespangled, bespeckled, blotched, blotchy, defiled, dotted, dotty, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, frecked, freckle-faced, freckled, freckly, impure, indecent, macular, maculated, patchy, peppered, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, punctated, smirched, soiled, spangled, spattered, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splashed, splattered, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, stippled, studded, sullied, tainted, unchaste, unclean, unvirginal, unvirtuous

Dictionary Results for maculate:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

maculate
    adj 1: morally blemished; stained or impure [syn: defiled,
           maculate]
    2: spotted or blotched
    v 1: make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used
         metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long
         exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the
         affair with a married man" [syn: tarnish, stain,
         maculate, sully, defile]
    2: spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river
       by emptying raw sewage into it" [syn: foul, befoul,
       defile, maculate]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Maculate \Mac"u*late\, v. t. [L. maculatus, p. p. of maculare to
   spot. See Macula, and cf. Macule, v.]
   To spot; to stain; to blur.
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         Maculate the honor of their people.      --Sir T.
                                                  Elyot.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Maculate \Mac"u*late\, a. [L. maculatus, p. p.]
   Marked with spots or maculae; blotched; hence, defiled;
   impure; as, most maculate thoughts. --Shak.
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