bleared

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Only bad writers literally hold nothing sacred; the best of the black humorists hold some things too sacred to be bleared with hypocrisy or smeared with prurience.

From Time Magazine Archive

Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil'-And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

From Time Magazine Archive

In its account of Hollywood in the 1920s and '30s, trifles are sharply observed, but the whole picture is bleared and unfocused.

From Time Magazine Archive

Quicklime had seared the youth's, cataract bleared the oldster's.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Wormtongue only shot a glance of his bleared eyes full of terror at Gandalf, and then shuffled quickly past behind Saruman.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien