bedaub

Paying test subjects for the trouble and risk of swallowing, being injected with or bedaubed with drugs or other medical substances is accepted practice worldwide.

Our pessimist frauds and the Ibsensite pack Will groan as they thickly bedaub it in black.

Chiefs harangued their yelling followers, braves bedaubed themselves with war-paint, smeared themselves with grease, hung feathers in their scalp-locks, and whooped and stamped till they had wrought themselves into a delirium of valor.

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub.

The description of the old-time navigator is not attractive: These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with paint, their skins filthy and greasy, their hair entangled.