smear

Cambridge called the claims against Arday a “vile smear campaign to undermine his credibility.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Enjoy warm with a smear of jam or your favorite fruit preserves.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said the French government had asked Israel for an explanation on BlackCore's actions, but also for help trying to find out who may have been behind the smear campaign.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

So, in spite of O’Leary’s concerted efforts to smear the protesters as “proxies” for the Chinese government, and to dismiss opposing arguments as “poo-poo,” Utah politicians sound quite different right now.

From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026

Andromeda was not a cloud of glowing gas; it was a cloud of stars so distant that they looked like a smear rather than individual points of light.

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

Researchers gently rub the parchment with a dry cytology brush, the same type of brush used for Pap smears.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

“I was just trying to get through a tray at a time,” she says, “but there were layers of smears that had come in overnight.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

She tears into a warm baguette, smears it with chèvre and hands him a piece.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

"The smears being thrown against her are reprehensible and hypocritical," Rupert McNeil, former head of HR at the Civil Service said recently.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

I would rather be using a hard pencil; the charcoal gets on my fingers and smears, and is no good for hair.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

The next morning, she woke up to a "horrible realisation", feeling itchy with red lumps over her body and blood spots smeared on the bedding — the tell-tale signs of bed bugs, she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

The liver is then extracted and treated before serving, perhaps pan-seared or smeared cold on bread.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Lean and wet and smeared with grass, he introduces himself as Lincoln Hedberg from New Jersey.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

One group inflated a giant disco ball, while another smeared themselves with body paint next to a line of rehearsing dancers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

When it was soft, he went outside and smeared it over the runners and let it freeze again.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Technicians then pour off the top layer and place a drop of the concentrated sediment onto a glass slide before smearing it evenly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Ramos said the audio was about smearing his work, adding "no Mexican authority took responsibility for that audio."

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

But when he discovers a beehive, he shares the honey with his fellow prisoners by smearing it over his body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

Writing for the London Evening Standard one TV critic accused Big Brother's top executive Peter Bazalgette of "smearing excrement over our screens".

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025

It leaked in through the heavy drapes, smearing itself across the room in thick lines.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas