Sentence:  In connection with this splendid record I want to point a moral (though it will <WSD>unadorn</WSD> the tale), for I recently heard a city man say in a public meeting: “Why, these dairymen are getting rich. They have cows that will make a thousand pounds of butter in a year and look what they get for butter.” 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To add a feature or embellishment that makes something uglier; uglify.