besmear

Example Sentences

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Of course, you will cut your beautiful locks, besmear your cheeks, and there you are.

From Six Women and the Invasion by Yerta, Gabrielle

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 Joly, H. Bencraft

I lose myself in the recollections of my childhood like an old man … I do not expect anything further in life than a succession of sheets of paper to besmear with black.

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel

I was enforc'd to send it after him; I was beset with shame and courtesy; My honour would not let ingratitude So much besmear it.

From The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, William

To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah