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  • noun Plural form of slathering.

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Examples

  • Nor were celebrities safe from her slatherings: John Wayne, Tiger Woods and Elvis Presley ironically, for butter, she portrayed the young, thin Elvis were all displayed at the Iowa State Fair.

    Cow Sculptor Buttered Fingers Stephen Miller 2011

  • Yet Mr. Eastwood's ponderous direction, a clumsy script by Dustin Lance Black and ghastly slatherings of old-age makeup all conspire to put the story at an emotional and historical distance.

    'J. Edgar': Hoover's Life, in a Dramatic Vacuum Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • Markedly different from those artists 'luxuriant paint and pastel handling, however, George has perfected an energetic technique in which the layerings of various collage materials are combined with turbid and moody paint shading, bold palette knife slatherings and robust surface modeling.

    Independent Weekly Dave Delcambre 2010

  • Pithaughn: "faint glimmers" of secession? hell, the whole structure is way rickety. push it hard enough and the only way to get it to hold back together will be with copious slatherings of military glue (which can be cut for extension with paramilitary bonding agent).

    Wonkette » top 2009

  • Bedford vans don't usually come in rich slatherings of bianco fuji paint with a hint of pistachio.

    Jalopnik 2009

  • Though this was one of the more difficult times of the day, as she served food she was not allowed to touch and watched the girls deliberately spoil what they left on their plates with slatherings of salt and pepper so that she could not even salvage it for herself, tonight she comforted herself with the knowledge that her dinner was not going to be as meager as it had been for far too long-

    Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

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