bedaub

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Besmear, be-smēr′, v.t. to smear over: to bedaub: to pollute.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

"Yes, but you must not bedaub the walls," said Mother Carsten.

From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich

Both Greeks and savages employ the bull-roarer, both bedaub the initiated with dirt or with white paint or chalk. 

From Custom and Myth by Lang, Andrew

Does any one bedaub his friends with flattery?

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

The men paint or bedaub their faces and breasts with a kind of red earth.

From The Captive in Patagonia by Bourne, Benjamin Franklin