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black mark

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a black mark
if you get a black mark, people think that something you have done is bad and they will remember it in future. This administrative error will be a black mark on his record. If I'm late for work it'll be another black mark against me. (often + against)
See also: black, mark

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It was such a gradual movement that he discovered it only through noticing that a black mark that had been near him five minutes ago was now at the other side of the circumference.
But I thought with dread that it was flowing towards Magwitch, and that any black mark on its surface might be his pursuers, going swiftly, silently, and surely, to take him.
But his face looks so wicked and menacing, as he stands leaning against the sun-dial-setting, as it were, his black mark upon the very face of day--that her flight is arrested by horror as she looks at him.
 
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