bedaub

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Our pessimist frauds and the Ibsensite pack Will groan as they thickly bedaub it in black.

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Chiefs harangued their yelling followers, braves bedaubed themselves with war-paint, smeared themselves with grease, hung feathers in their scalp-locks, and whooped and stamped till they had wrought themselves into a delirium of valor.

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To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub.

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The description of the old-time navigator is not attractive: These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with paint, their skins filthy and greasy, their hair entangled.

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The young woman would not have been ill-looking, had she been well scrubbed, and all the yellow clay with which she was bedaubed, washed away.

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