Synonyms of slathered

slathered

verb

past tense of slather

as in smeared

to put a thick layer of a liquid, cream, etc. over (something)

We ate lobster slathered with butter.

She slathered her skin with sunscreen.

Related Words

• smeared
• plastered
• daubed
• dabbed
• anointed
• covered
• bedaubed
• besmeared
• coated
• applied
• laid on
• blanketed
• layered
• spread
• laid
• overlaid
• carpeted
• mantled
• surfaced
• sheeted
• overlay
• overspread

Dissimilar Words

• exposed
• stripped
• peeled
• uncovered
• bared

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of slathered

Less fun is the shiny piano black plastic slathered all over the front center console, which will inevitably look terrible. — Joel Feder, The Drive, 6 Nov. 2026

For just $20, this serum can be slathered on from head to toe for glass-like skin, smaller pores, and a radiant, even skin tone. — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 21 Oct. 2026

The team was rolling out cheese balls for the holidays, when one of the workers making strawberry turnovers took one of the cheese balls and slathered on Smucker’s Strawberry Preserves. — Angela Caraway-Carlton, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2026

The bread is slathered in a thick tomato sauce sweet with tomato jam and roasted pepper. — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

The President, who likes his steak well done and slathered in ketchup, met with a Brazilian beef magnate named Joesley Batista, who in the past had admitted to making large payments to public officials and was briefly jailed. — Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2026

They’ll be served up with fresh asparagus and a couple of large taters slathered with butter, sour cream and chives. — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2026

That’s aside from the other secret sauce, of course, which is DBS sauce — slathered on many of its patties. — Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2026

The desserts are divine, especially the fluffy floating island, the perfect profiteroles, the crusty crème brûlée and the Trou Normand, a yummy apple sorbet slathered in Calvados. — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026