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• n  an irregularly shaped spot
• v  mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

• The only colors in the scene are a pink blotch of gum on the worn sole of her shoe and an amber prescription bottle holding the Vicodin capsules that, we learn, she cracks open .
• Nearly four hours after the bomb blast, Neeraj Chawla still walks around with a large blotch of blood on his blue shirt.
• It was the size of a dime and as thick as a nickela discolored blotch on John McCain's left temple.

• splodge
• splotch
• mottle
• streak

News & Articles

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• Morning Minutes: March 16
  dapple DAP-uhl noun; A small contrasting spot or blotch; a mottled appearance, especially of the coat of an animal (as a horse); transitive verb: to mark with patches of a color or shade; to spot. intransitive verb: to become dappled; adjective: marked with contrasting patches or spots; dappled.
  March 22, 2014 - Gridley Herald

Quotes

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• Phil Donahue in WTRF
  Sending our men and women off to this war at the risk of death will be a blotch on the Senate forever,Donohue quoted Byrd.
• Sark in CTV.ca
  John Joe Sark, a spiritual leader of the Mi'kmaq people in Prince Edward Island, says Fort Amherst's namesake is a "terrible blotch on Canada."
• Arlen Specter in FOXNews
  Senator Specter, you have been very critical of the NSA warrantless wiretap program, saying that without judicial review it is a, quote, "blotch on America".