daub
Example Sentences
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He is a pliant enough actor to daub each portrait with just enough psychological color.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2026
Celebrants daub each other with vividly colored powders.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2022
There’s a daub of blue paint in one corner, which he squished into the surface over a background of very, very light colors, and he’s painted the word “photo” above it.
From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2022
Who can “prove” that a painting by da Vinci is worth more than a daub by the most amateur painter?
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022
It makes the stone houses drip and the wattle and daub houses look soggy.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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