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spread it on
verb as in butter up
verb as in cajole
Strong matches
verb as in flatter
Strongest match
Strong matches
verb as in misrepresent/misquote
Weak matches
- adulterate
- angle
- beard
- belie
- build up
- cloak
- color
- con
- confuse
- cover up
- disguise
- distort
- dress
- embellish
- embroider
- equivocate
- exaggerate
- falsify
- garble
- give snow job
- mangle
- mask
- miscolor
- misinterpret
- misreport
- misstate
- overdraw
- overstate
- palter
- pervert
- phony up
- pirate
- prevaricate
- promote
- puff
- skew
- slant
- snow
- stretch
- take out of context
- throw a curve
- trump up
- twist
- warp
verb as in sweet-talk
Example Sentences
Spread it on generously with a paintbrush — and be patient.
So I’ll sometimes pick up bread, just like a loaf of bread at Farm Shop and get one of their tuna things — I’m literally making myself hungry right now — and spread it on at the beach.
Jones then took alcohol-based hand sanitizer that was in the lobby and spread it on his head and upper body, authorities said.
Spread it on buttered toast, spoon it into a par-baked thumbprint cookie, or use it to fill PB&Js.
She removed the cover, spread it on the tabletop in front of Babulya, and set the scroll on top of the smoothed cloth.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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