as in smearing
to rub an oily or sticky substance over
the toddler delightedly bedaubed herself with her mother's makeup
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The vacuum cleaner has powerful suction, and the mop cleans without sloshing and smearing water on the floor.—
Terri Williams,
Architectural Digest,
3 Nov. 2025 -
The little brother is still contentedly working on his painting, dipping his brush into his pots and then smearing it across the paper.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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One is that there’s this centaur — half-horse, half-me — painting in my apartment.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Nov. 2025
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Spanberger’s campaign had looped the clip in a string of attack ads painting her as combative and unprepared.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Nov. 2025
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Your glass tabletops, windows, and mirrors may look worse after cleaning them thanks to the dull film coating their surface.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
5 Nov. 2025
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Criterion one is mostly addressed through hardware reinforcement and clever engineering, for example, coating internal components in heat-resistant silicone and keeping moving parts to a minimum.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Bedaubing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bedaubing. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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