bedaub
Example Sentences
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Both Greeks and savages employ the bull-roarer, both bedaub the initiated with dirt or with white paint or chalk.
From Custom and Myth New Edition by Lang, Andrew
The men paint or bedaub their faces and breasts with a kind of red earth.
From The Captive in Patagonia by Bourne, Benjamin Franklin
Does any one bedaub his friends with flattery?
From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us
To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
