daub

He is a pliant enough actor to daub each portrait with just enough psychological color.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2026

Celebrants daub each other with vividly colored powders.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

Who can “prove” that a painting by da Vinci is worth more than a daub by the most amateur painter?

From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022

In the absence of costumes or conspicuous floats, young people used their imaginations to daub eye-catching slogans on protest signs for the youth march.

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2021

There was always a daub of anesthetic ointment, or a pill; or in severe instances, an injection that brought complete and instantaneous deliverance.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry

They are generally pleasant if bland landscapes, rendered in small, precise daubs of thick paint, and they begin to appear by the mid-1870s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025

After another row or two, Daignault’s canvases become increasingly abstract, finally dissolving into blurred daubs of color against black fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

The algorithm-driven daubs of pastel color, although they never cohere into legible images, “explore the heritage of landscape painting,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2022

Those short daubs of green and blue in his views of Mont-Sainte-Victoire.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021

He was the painters idea of a man, simply daubs of paint, nothing more.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

In the northern region of Asturias, graffiti has been daubed in recent days on holiday rental properties, with the slogan: "Your business, our ruin."

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

Martine Letterie, one of the campaign's organisers, said concentration camps were increasingly the target of vandalism, including far-right imagery daubed on sites.

From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026

On the front steps, insults daubed in spray paint were directed at both Mayor Karen Bass and President Trump.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

The statue was also daubed with graffiti during Extinction Rebellion demonstrations in 2020, for which an 18-year-old protester was given a £200 fine and told to pay £1,200 in compensation.

From BBC ● May 6, 2025

Then Torak saw that on the brown forehead, a shaky circle had been daubed in red ochre.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

St George's crosses also appeared painted on roundabouts in Birmingham and Bromsgrove, with a video of one man daubing the road in full view of a police officer.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2025

Prosecutors are also investigating whether two Moldovans who admitted to daubing Stars of David on the walls of Parisian properties did so at the behest of someone abroad.

From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2023

Punishment was swiftly meted out for any public expression of Ukrainian patriotism — displaying a flag, singing a national ballad, daubing a bit of blue-and-yellow graffiti.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

In the Republic of Ireland police are investigating the daubing of black paint on a monument to Christopher Columbus in Galway - a gift from the city of Genoa.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2020

When early civilizations started pressing reeds to clay tablets, carving figures in stone, and daubing ink on parchment and on papyrus, number systems had already been well-established.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife