as in to smear
to put a thick layer of a liquid, cream, etc. over (something)
We ate lobster slathered with butter. She slathered her skin with sunscreen.
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Recent Examples of slather
Sam Sifton, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Brush your dipping oil over small pieces of bread, toast ‘em, slather on some chèvre, and drizzle with a bit of honey.
—Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Imagine tender slices of juicy steak piled high on a crusty baguette, layered with sautéed onions and mushrooms, and slathered with a creamy mayo-mustard sauce.
—Linda Gassenheimer, Boston Herald, 11 June 2025
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Verb
Instead: a night of marination in soy sauce, maple syrup, salt, pepper and garlic, then a pat dry, a slather of mayonnaise and an hour and a half in a 200-degree oven, until the roast’s internal temperature was around 110 degrees.
—Sam Sifton, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Brush your dipping oil over small pieces of bread, toast ‘em, slather on some chèvre, and drizzle with a bit of honey.
—Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
Come here for breakfast, and tear off a hunk of a just-out-of-the-oven baguette, slather it with salted premium French butter, sip great coffee, and kick off your day.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Imagine tender slices of juicy steak piled high on a crusty baguette, layered with sautéed onions and mushrooms, and slathered with a creamy mayo-mustard sauce.
—Linda Gassenheimer, Boston Herald, 11 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slather
Verb
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The assertion by certain anonymous users online is a typically out-of-context and absurd effort to create fake news for clicks and to smear.—
Chloe Mayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 June 2025
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In extreme cases, some parents will threaten to smear the therapist's name, leave bad reviews, complain to the licensing board, or even threaten the therapist’s physical safety.—
Sherri Gordon,
Parents,
23 June 2025
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Dalton said a lengthy prison sentence wouldn’t make the community any safer, wouldn’t help the man with his addiction and would cost taxpayers gobs of money.—
Scott Maxwell,
Sun Sentinel,
1 Jan. 2025
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In some instances, websites have gobs of readable material that explain what IQ is and how to manually determine yours.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
2 Oct. 2024
Verb
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The Yankees loved Rice’s exit velocity throughout spring training and anointed hm into the DH mix when Giancarlo Stanton went down with tendon issues in both elbows.—
Larry Fleisher,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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Read more: How U.S. Strikes May Have Inadvertently Helped the Iranian Regime Ever since George W. Bush anointed Russia, Iran and North Korea as the Axis of Evil, the U.S. had failed to cripple its surge — until now.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
22 June 2025
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Oracle has announced a slew of AI deals in recent months, including the joint Stargate venture with OpenAI and SoftBank to invest billions in bolstering AI infrastructure.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
30 June 2025
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That evolution is causing a ripple effect across partner ecosystems, creating a slew of challenges for marketing leaders.—
Paul Tibbitt,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
Verb
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Apply a small amount of stain remover to a clean cloth and dab at the stain, reapplying the stain remover to the cloth as needed.—
Jolie Kerr,
Better Homes & Gardens,
26 June 2025
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His wife and lawyer dabbed their eyes several times.—
SOPHIE BATES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
26 June 2025
Noun
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Simply stir the zingy horseradish sauce together, and stack layers of the cold cuts and fresh veggies to build a roast beef sandwich better than anything Publix can offer.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
28 June 2025
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The end result was a stack of decisions deferring to Trump.—
Alicia Adamczyk,
Fortune,
28 June 2025
Verb
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Many of the walls are plastered with chukum, a protective resin used by the ancient Mayans that adds a wispy texture to the concrete.—
David Shortell,
Travel + Leisure,
22 June 2025
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Posters are plastered around the city and ads line the tube (the London subway), but there’s one creative decision that may be doing a better job at marketing the show than anyone imagined, luring hundreds of spectators to the London Palladium every night.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
20 June 2025
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Testing found that the limestone on which the foundation sat and the pile concrete were strong enough to support the building, and the basement slab showed no signs of cracking or sinking.—
Linda Robertson,
Miami Herald,
24 June 2025
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First on the docket is a pile of cords knotted together, ensnaring an eyelash curler and a pen.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
23 June 2025
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“Slather.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slather. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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