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  • adverb In a smeary fashion.

Etymologies

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smeary +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Larry had his hands spread reverentially on the smooth, cool surface, smearily, his cheek and chest pressed to it, too, as if absorbing the on-again, off-again sunlight, as if listening for information carried in the wires in the glass, perhaps wishing not to break through but to squeeze into its transparency, to enter the flow.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

  • Larry had his hands spread reverentially on the smooth, cool surface, smearily, his cheek and chest pressed to it, too, as if absorbing the on-again, off-again sunlight, as if listening for information carried in the wires in the glass, perhaps wishing not to break through but to squeeze into its transparency, to enter the flow.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

  • Larry had his hands spread reverentially on the smooth, cool surface, smearily, his cheek and chest pressed to it, too, as if absorbing the on-again, off-again sunlight, as if listening for information carried in the wires in the glass, perhaps wishing not to break through but to squeeze into its transparency, to enter the flow.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

  • It's like a mini-papacy, but without the pointy hats and rather more smearily-mimeo'd newsletters.

    Archive 2005-05-29 Rogers 2005

  • It's like a mini-papacy, but without the pointy hats and rather more smearily-mimeo'd newsletters.

    "Toxic Spiritual Nature" ... and Those Desks Pinch Rogers 2005

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