bedaub
Example Sentences
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Does any one bedaub his friends with flattery?
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
The men paint or bedaub their faces and breasts with a kind of red earth.
From The Captive in Patagonia by Bourne, Benjamin Franklin
To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
Our pessimist frauds and the Ibsensite pack Will groan as they thickly bedaub it in black.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
