besmear

Example Sentences

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It is because I am old and a hermit that you are trying to besmear my advice and belittle me before my lord the king.

From The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc by Rudder, Robert S.

It is said that elephants in India will besmear themselves with mud as a protection against insects, and that they will break branches from the trees and use them to brush away the flies.

From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John

The reverse of besmear is to rub off; hence to obliterate means to rub out, to erase.

From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Cavins, Elmer W.

They fashion his image of kadamb7 wood and besmear it with red lead.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)

“They are gentlemen, no matter how much you may wish to besmear them with low epithets.”

From The Squatter and the Don by Loyal, C.