Unlike blackface characters, they are indelibly stained.

The book had dried out well, although one corner of its front cover was faintly but indelibly stained with the merchant's blood.

The Clinton Presidency has been indelibly stained by impeachment.

Their hands were indelibly stained with some of the foulest crimes ever recorded in history.

It was as though Murbella's original clarity had been stained indelibly and then that mark covered over and even this cover masked.

On the one hand a man hopelessly lost, a coward who shirks his responsibility as a man and an officer, indelibly stained.

The suit was indelibly stained in places, but it was still self-cleaning, to an extent, and was more or less intact.

No matter what happens, she said, Mr. Clinton's legacy "shall be indelibly stained."

Though recently washed and pressed with a heated stroking-iron, his shirt was indelibly stained to a dull reddish ochre colour.

I've never been able to go back to that book; it's indelibly stained, for me, with the moodiness and self-dramatization of my youth.