besmear
Example Sentences
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To foul with a dirty liquid; to besmear.
From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by James Jennings
I had noticed before, in the Malmö prison, how the prisoners tried to besmear this glass, or scratch on it, with a sort of fury, so that it was often impossible to see through it.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
The women besmear themselves with the most disgusting filth.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Sir James George Frazer
Smirch, smirch, v.t. to besmear, dirty: to degrade in fame, dignity, &c.—n. a stain.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
And although we may besmear our liver and brain in the mire, how could we show our gratitude, even to so slight a degree as one ten-thousandth part.
From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by H. Bencraft Joly
