Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Smeared over; bedaubed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Smeared over.
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- adjective Smeared over.
Etymologies
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Examples
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So I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me.
Great Expectations 2007
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The issue is that the Dem leadership recognized the timing problem and offered to completely re-do the vote, but the Republicans, who know they lost the vote, refused and instead decided to try to turn it into asmear.
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So, I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me.
Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861
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So, I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me.
Great Expectations 1860
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So I came into Smithfield; and the shameful place, being all asmear with filth and fat and blood and foam, seemed to stick to me.
Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1841
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I’m not making the case that Jonathan was objectively right in the import of his all but rhetorical question — but it can hardly be characterized as asmear.
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