mar

Object

• nursing: Insensitive nursing marred a patient's last hours of life As a second-year nursing student on clinical placement, I witnessed a disturbing incident.

Subject

• controversy: Let's hope that the launch has not been marred too much by controversy.
• violence: Many demonstrations were marred by police violence in an attempt to portray the students in a bad light.
• sin: Tho marred by sin, in you I'm blessed.
• injury: He was transfer listed in March 2000 after a season marred by injury but the £ 3,000 price tag was not realized.
• protest: The 1956 and 1972 events were marred by Irish republican protests.
• fact: Rating: A truly entertaining tale marred only by the fact that Tinker sleeps through most of the action scenes!

Modifies a noun

• sin: Tha mi cinnteach gum biodh tu an aghaidh leasachadh mar sin.
• bar: A class vote could be taken to see who would eat a deep fried mars bar.

Modifying Another Word

• slightly: The middle of the week was slightly marred by Polly kicking me in the face!
• somewhat: The evening was somewhat marred for me by my journey home.
• unfortunately: However, we could have a refreshment stop which was unfortunately marred for some by dreadfully poor service.
• sadly: Gloria Finch The first quarter of this year has been sadly marred by the deaths of many loyal members of the Cathedral Community.

Noun used with modifier

• el: Some of his manuscripts were confiscated, including that for the novel Otra vez el mar, which he eventually published in 1982.

Preposition: by

• controversy: Let's hope that the launch has not been marred too much by controversy.
• violence: Many demonstrations were marred by police violence in an attempt to portray the students in a bad light.
• sin: Tho marred by sin, in you I'm blessed.
• injury: He was transfer listed in March 2000 after a season marred by injury but the £ 3,000 price tag was not realized.
• protest: The 1956 and 1972 events were marred by Irish republican protests.
• fact: Rating: A truly entertaining tale marred only by the fact that Tinker sleeps through most of the action scenes!