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synonyms for smeary

  • buttery
  • creamy
  • oiled
  • slippery
  • waxy
  • adipose
  • butyraceous
  • lardy
  • lubricant
  • lubricative
  • lubricous
  • lustrous
  • oil-soaked
  • oleaginous
  • polished
  • rich
  • saponaceous
  • sleek
  • smooth
  • soapy
  • soothing
  • swimming
  • unctuous
On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to smeary, such as: buttery, creamy, oiled, slippery, waxy, and adipose.

antonyms for smeary

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  • dry
  • hateful
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How to use smeary in a sentence

A lightly tapered tip gives it just enough rise for buttery turn initiations and an overall smeary playfulness.
LONG-TERM REVIEW: THE BEST SKIS, PERIODHEATHER SCHULTZ AND MARC PERUZZIMARCH 4, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINE
Ms Galvez caught me staring at it and handed me a permission slip on smeary Xeroxed school letterhead.
LITTLE BROTHERCORY DOCTOROW
What did they care for dust on the books and smeary window panes?
MOLLY BROWN OF KENTUCKYNELL SPEED
In front of it a sagging woman with tight-drawn hair, and a baby bedraggled, smeary, glorious-eyed.
MAIN STREETSINCLAIR LEWIS
He had a passion for stealing sugarall the door knobs were smeary and sticky where his sugary hands had reached to open the doors.
JOAN OF THE JOURNALHELEN DIEHL OLDS
Poppy was painting, standing before a huge canvas and looking very smeary; she gave me a cheek to kiss, and she was thin!
AFFINITIES AND OTHER STORIESMARY ROBERTS RINEHARD
Winnie's small, pointed face was haggard and smeary with tears.
THE NARROW HOUSEEVELYN SCOTT
Care should be taken not to breathe on the glass, or a damp, smeary effect may result.
DACTYLOGRAPHYHENRY FAULDS
Light was that gray ugliness that precedes the smeary glare of dawn on Venus.
SHOCK TREATMENTSTANLEY MULLEN
On the table which was shining wet and smeary with soap, stood a huge basin.
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WORDS RELATED TO SMEARY

  • adipose
  • buttery
  • butyraceous
  • creamy
  • lardy
  • lubricant
  • lubricative
  • lubricous
  • lustrous
  • oil-soaked
  • oiled
  • oleaginous
  • polished
  • rich
  • saponaceous
  • sleek
  • slippery
  • smeary
  • smooth
  • soapy
  • soothing
  • swimming
  • unctuous
  • waxy
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.