as in gaudy
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as in smeared
to rub an oily or sticky substance over
the toddler delightedly bedaubed herself with her mother's makeup
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Adjective
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The former's post-apocalyptic cities were nicely sun-scorched and detailed, while the latter's gaudy anime pirates popped with vibrancy.—
Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
29 Apr. 2026 -
Both these cousins grow to a comparable size and shape about 15 to 20 feet tall and wide, and combine gaudy spring flowers with scarlet and crimson fall foliage.—
Steve Bender,
Southern Living,
15 Apr. 2026
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But the pigment and gum are largely invisible, because harding and Upkett smeared them with white paint used by the Carnegie Museum to cover its walls.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
12 May 2026
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The Orbánists first ignored them, then smeared them.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026
Adjective
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This is really a series of different phone designs, some quite radically different from each other, all unified by a garish sense of luxury.—
Dominic Preston,
The Verge,
1 May 2026
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Not because of the roving packs of teenagers or even the garish displays of overconsumption, but because mall architecture was high art.—
AJ Willingham,
AJC.com,
17 Apr. 2026
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Many of the buildings are painted almost like a salmon-colored pink.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
11 May 2026
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Asuka had painted Sky with her poison mist in a confrontation before the match.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2026
Adjective
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Stroll down Main Road and admire houses representing every era of Westport’s long colonial and maritime history, from Cape Cod cottages and colonial saltboxes to showy Greek Revival sea captains’ homes.—
Anna Laird Barto,
Travel + Leisure,
13 May 2026
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Verbenas Easy-to-grow verbena bears showy clusters of red, pink, purple, or white tubular flowers.—
Nellah Bailey McGough,
Southern Living,
12 May 2026
Verb
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Once the fibers appear flattened, coated with dust, or no longer attract particles, they should be discarded.—
Jessica Safavimehr,
Southern Living,
12 May 2026
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It should be noted that the underside of the bladder (which is in contact with the user's back) is coated with soft-touch fabric, plus an optional mesh back panel can be added for extra breathability.—
Ben Coxworth
May 11,
New Atlas,
11 May 2026
Adjective
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For those who know the play well, some of Mantello’s choices are most striking, especially the horror here of the famous hotel-room scene with a tawdry lover (brutally played by Katherine Romans), an act born of loneliness that destroys a father’s relationship with his son forever.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
10 Apr. 2026
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Illinois and Chicago are high-tax, big-promise blue strongholds with long, tawdry histories of waste, fraud, patronage, insider deals and blatant corruption.—
Andy Shaw,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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For a swanky dinner, drive 4 minutes along the water to Maverick’s Montauk.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 May 2026
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Worker at swanky country club accused of using AI to create explicit photos of teen, police say – Police say a worker at an exclusive, swanky country club has been accused of utilizing artificial intelligence tools to generate explicit and inappropriate photographs of a teenager.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Bedaubed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedaubed. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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