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    1. managed to smear it across his jaw and nose a little more vividly


    2. He let a few drops fall from his mouth onto the kerchief and, rather than wiping away the dust on his face and lips, he just managed to smear it across his jaw and nose a little more vividly


    3. pure, untouched by the smear of powder


    4. Towering above them, a smear of darkness drew near


    5. I have you back once more," the smear continued, speaking from a body that was black as a starless night but blinding and bright when compared to the shade of its soul


    6. As we passed a bog, surrounded by a stand of alders, Philippos told me I must smear


    7. The best he could do was smear the blood on his hand all over her shirt


    8. ” Mars stopped twenty feet from Cupid, his face a dark and ugly smear of hatred and pain


    9. Anything else will smear


    10. The cat, caught squarely in the blast, slammed against the wall, leaving a long smear of blood on the wallpaper as it slid to the floor

    11. That caused punch-up as we had to hold him down to smear it on, and he tried to bite all of us


    12. It was this party which was indifferent to aiding or rebuilding New Orleans, and its members on talk radio went out of their way to smear the mostly Black victims


    13. “For crying out loud, it is too! Look what is written on the door and that smear on the back window is from my face!” They locked stares


    14. With his temples throbbing, his vision blurred as a grey smear went past the view-screens


    15. I wipe some of the paint from my face, slowly, and then smear it on his cheek


    16. I follow the bumpy edges of buildings with my eyes until all the lit windows smear into a line


    17. Somewhere up there is the chair I sat in while I was running the attack simulation, and a smear of Tris’s father’s blood on the wall


    18. David’s blood and my blood smear my clothes in places


    19. scratch on the steel blade, only a faint smear of rust


    20. had taken on the floor below, the smear was a direct dissection of

    21. bloody smear had vanished as it approached the top of the stairs,


    22. smear of recent footprints on the moulding floorboards


    23. “What a beautiful sight” Elizabeth looked at the beating red heart, crushing it with her hands letting Chloes blood smear over her heands, face and black dress


    24. Democratic smear campaigns against candidates for high office are, in their perverted way, efforts by the accusers to establish themselves as taking the moral high ground


    25. so don't worry, I won't smear you with my feelings,” I said, punching him slightly on the shoulder, this time he stayed in the same place


    26. campaign within the military to smear him until he retired


    27. Sort of the smear cited by this previous author:


    28. research and smear members of Congress


    29. bottom and smear these with silicone on the


    30. Azeth jumped through the tent flap backwards like a frightened cat and left a large bloody smear across the tent from the deep slash that had been inflicted to his forearm

    31. “Tim, hey there is a weird smear of blood on my armrest


    32. It‘s also common for them to smear excrement on themselves and the floors, doors, etc


    33. “I did it in second period, all free hand, I didn’t have any blue pens though, but these black ones kind of have a metallic look to them right? Like ground copper, doesn’t smear either


    34. I wanted to smear his self-satisfied smirk across the rocks


    35. A smear of blood marked one of the pages


    36. ” He coughed and a thin trickle of blood marred his lip, he wiped at it with his chin against a shoulder leaving a bloody smear on the gown


    37. A moment later Conan saw a man crawling over the flaming floor toward him—a man whose progress left a broad bloody smear on the smoldering surface


    38. He saw no sign of the serpent or its victim, only a great smear of blood on the stone floor


    39. To anoint means to smear or rub with oil or an oily substance, which even today is a common medical treatment for the wounds of a body that is still alive……


    40. “So if you’re offered any test ­whether it’s a smear, a blood pressure check or a mammogram, making that ­appointment should be a priority – not something that wallows in the bottom of your in tray

    41. a smear on the trash


    42. He was glancing over his shoulder, more at the moon than the cabin and Elise thought she detected a smear of fear across his predator eyes


    43. All that was left was a smear of mud extending well out into the ocean


    44. It wasn’t like I’d never had a Pap smear before, but having all your goodies sprawled


    45. She too has turned against you, blaming you for the smear


    46. It was dryer than the eggs and a lovely shade of mottled black, covered by a liberal smear of strong marmalade


    47. ‘’Do you know why the Israelis are trying to smear this Nancy Laplante the way they do now, dear?’’ Asked his wife


    48. "You're a little behind," she wheezes, pursing the crooked smear of lip-stick that she calls a mouth


    49. “It’s a smear job, that’s what it is


    50. The grape danced to the tune of chaos, jigging over a smear of juice, jagging














































    1. Now satiated, dripping sweat and smeared with Cretan soil,


    2. Now satiated, dripping sweat and smeared with Cretan soil, they lay side by side staring at the rising field of stars that glistened above the olive trees


    3. chipped, smeared with soot,


    4. Even Mikri came and smeared my face with his little wet nose and went to sleep between my feet


    5. Harry gazed sidelong for a moment as the Great Plains smeared past the open state room window situated over where he sat at a small table


    6. "You can do the housework," she told Gretel, "then I'll make a meal of you too!" As luck would have it, the witch had very bad eyesight, and when Gretel smeared butter on her glasses, she could see even less


    7. He had had the entire stairway smeared with glue


    8. They all were smeared with mud and grease


    9. He had a red tikka smeared on his forehead


    10. Griffin lifted a leaf for me to see; droplets of blood smeared the waxy surface

    11. green Biobull smeared with a vermillion tilak


    12. Tragus soon returned, smeared something


    13. later, he also smeared a wet paste on her cheek


    14. Besides, rain had smeared the thorn-drawn ink so thoroughly, she couldn’t read a word


    15. noticed the smeared writing on it


    16. There was blood smeared on the walls and on the floor


    17. Again he looked at us blood smeared and bone weary and said


    18. Yet, when his perception switched back to the view of space, he was no longer travelling at subluminal speed – the stars were smeared lines, some kind of hyperspace drive was in operation


    19. The pancakes were made by adding a small amount of flour and water together then you smeared a mess tin lid with either bacon fat or any grease you could get your hands on


    20. He rubbed his hands on his trousers in an attempt to cleanse himself, but the blood smeared and spread across his clothes

    21. He looked down at his hands and was dismayed to see that crimson stains still smeared his fingers


    22. Once the pigeons had beak trapped themselves by the unmanageable Hoola Hoops, smeared themselves with Chocolate Digestives and stuck with sticky toffee, put in as an addition after much thought and deliberation


    23. He smeared some on his cracked cheeks and forehead


    24. ” Sespian smeared another glop on his burned skin, sat in the chair, and patted the cat


    25. After a small commotion we smeared all four paws and the next day he brought tears to my eyes when he sat down and gave me each paw without any unpleasantness to treat


    26. Guatemala, trying its first timid reforms, was smeared as Communist and then its government overthrown in 1954 simply for no longer outlawing Communists


    27. could turn around, Alex hit his face and Mike’s face smeared with


    28. He saw what looked like tennis balls, all covered and smeared in gore, and goo, and a milky, mucus-like sloppy substance


    29. Wallace took the trip with Owen Lattimore, a scholar on Asia later smeared as a Communist agent by Joe McCarthy


    30. He even defended Alger Hiss, a diplomat smeared as a Soviet spy by Nixon, an enormously brave act in the middle of McCarthyism

    31. Then he smeared generous amounts of the salve on each af-


    32. The pavement was liberally smeared with gobs of something that looked suspiciously like bubble-gum


    33. Brendan took out his handkerchief and mopped his brow, expecting to see it smeared with blood, but apparently, it was just a lot of sweat stinging his eyes


    34. Touching a book smeared throughout with a man’s life-blood was out of the question


    35. The smell of wood burning, the bitter taste of the medicines he made me drink, the stench of the ointment he smeared on my chest


    36. When I sent away his daughter, when I smeared his name forever, when I made her loathe him


    37. I smeared the signs of my master into the fallen alter, and onto the walls


    38. He was dripping wet, smeared with blood all over his hands and shirt


    39. Spilled info smeared the streets


    40. But when he put his hand to his cheek he felt warm moisture and looked down to see blood smeared on his fingers

    41. They worked fast and soundlessly through the fourteen tents belonging to Laino and his men, and in less than twenty minutes, they had smeared everything in the sticky pulp


    42. Anything that could be washed clean was now smeared in mud and flour and stank of valerian and garlic


    43. Everything was so thoroughly smeared in the sticky mass that the men had to use a lot of time on each piece of clothing


    44. Quan looked at ole boy’s hand as if he had shit smeared across his palm


    45. Paint is smeared across her forehead, giving her a purple eyebrow


    46. Johanna Reyes steps into the lobby, soaked to the bone from all the rain, her red clothes smeared with a darker red


    47. ground, rough and jagged, the red layers of rust smeared across


    48. “Well, other than the early bail,” said Barret, wiping the smeared


    49. The once-pale walls of the buildings had become smeared


    50. smeared boot polish over his pink featureless face in case he was










































    1. “Not again,” Henry said as he lifted up the paper and got a napkin, trying in vain to wipe the jam off the paper and succeeding only in smearing it around even more


    2. Without unfolding the message, I stuffed it into my trouser pocket, and then, frantically, I rubbed the mirror down with my towel, smearing a thin layer of wax everywhere


    3. He knelt down, his already bloody palm smearing the sharp boulders as he positioned himself nearer to the water and the smiling face


    4. When I came round he was smearing a substance like grease on my shoulder and then it was dressed and I was carried back outside and laid next to the other wounded soldiers on their stretchers


    5. He didn’t want more human blood, smearing his reputation


    6. Was she forgiven? With the blood staining his blond hair and eyebrows, smearing his neck, and dripping from his chin, he appeared even grimmer than usual, but he met her questioning gaze


    7. The photos showed beatings, death threats, threats with guard dogs, sexual humiliation, prolonged stress positions, sensory deprivation, sleep deprivation, smearing prisoners with feces and urine, simulated drowning, and disorientation using loud sounds


    8. Smearing the stuff on, she recalled sunscreening for their snorkeling adventure, when she asked him to carry her


    9. Big Dave crashed, smearing the plaster with a


    10. “All of it…Was only…” Tears filled his eyes and fell, smearing the dust on his

    11. with the back of his hand, smearing his face with dirt


    12. his fingers into my vagina, smearing my juices onto my rear


    13. subjected to his smearing around the soap suds left on it from


    14. Because they were both drinking the same stuff it smelt and tasted good to have wet lips smearing and slipping over each other


    15. smearing a blood-blessing on the child’s lips


    16. By following this position, you would be able to apply mascara without smearing


    17. Taking a step back, I stared at the smearing of facial features all over the mirror's surface


    18. smearing the glory from the past onto the Fascist dung that this


    19. describe God punishing unbelievers with what seemed everything the priests and prophets could imagine, from dragons to brimstone, from floods to infanticide, from hornets to thunderbolts, from cannibalism to open sores, and even by smearing poop on their faces


    20. She managed to do it twice, smearing mascara around her eyes

    21. While I value your friendship greatly, I cannot attend even privately your birthday party without possibly smearing your name as well with the same paintbrush of intolerance and ignorance that is going to do so much damage to the relations between Great Britain and Palestine


    22. Resolved to deal with the theological controversy that was smearing his eldest daughter’s name, the King had gone to Westminster Abbey to try to reason with the leaders of the Anglican Church, leaving his wife and Margaret in Buckingham Palace


    23. ” Dog had coiled the rope and fastened it into a funnel that he lined by smearing a sticky gray clay over the inside


    24. And when she was smearing the paint “down


    25. The sun sank low, and Mordan was smearing hash on me, and Trid looked up and said, “What are you doing up?”


    26. An elated grin smearing across Windsor’s cheeks he stepped toward Rad, squeezing his


    27. When he saw that beautiful yet cunning beauty thrown out of Aslan’s office, blood flowing from her nose and smearing her face, far from being revolted, he admired her gracefulness and was lured by her charms


    28. The little girl was smearing make-up all over her face, and gazing into the mirror of a vanity table, which obviously belonged to a teenaged girl, for it had pin-ups of boys, rock groups and movie stars posted all over it


    29. with his hand, missing it completely, smearing more blood on his face


    30. Bentonite (Smearing ) on every Grain of Sand

    31. Michael watched aghast as the blade continued to move forward and up, blood smearing on it and dripping off the tip


    32. ” Paul sighed heavily and ran a hand across his face, smearing some of the oil around


    33. ” She reached up, smearing bacon grease onto the cut


    34. Add to this a light smearing of oil over the skin and the image is complete


    35. More corruption accumulates than it can be washed away: until you are not wiping your ass free of shit anymore: you are merely smearing the shit over your ass; because there is more of it than your toilet paper can handle


    36. For a few moments he stood manically smearing his palms against the denim of his jeans and shaking his head to expel the clammy, disinfectant scented images


    37. Smearing sweat-slippery palms on his jeans, he tried to restart his stalled breathing


    38. "Shh," the black mother whispered back, smearing her blood on Lisa's fingers


    39. I kept smearing the paint, making mistakes


    40. This will aid its absorption into the skin and prevent clothing from smearing

    41. In his impatience he raised the axe again to cut the string from above on the body, but did not dare, and with difficulty, smearing his hand and the axe in the blood, after two minutes' hurried effort, he cut the string and took it off without touching the body with the axe; he was not mistaken--it was a purse


    42. Lewis is badgering the defendant, smearing him with innuendo in a transparent attempt to bias the jury against him


    43. They burst out laughing, and, with their mouths full of tart, they began wiping their smiling lips with their hands, and smearing their radiant faces all over with tears and jam


    44. The macabre scene sent to my publisher described a murderer leaning over the slain body of his lover, dipping his fingers into the gaping wound at her throat and smearing the blood on his lips before turning to his reflection in the mirror and saying,


    45. ” And when his most beloved film was threatened with the vandalism of colorization, he wrote to the Library of Congress, “Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint


    46. In his impatience he raised the axe again to cut the string from above on the body, but did not dare, and with difficulty, smearing his hand and the axe in the blood, after two minutes' hurried effort, he


    47. Brakelight smearing the grimed tiles


    48. Libby was smearing her face against the pastry glass already, though, hopping from one foot to another, and so Patty fished around in her pocket for some change and got a pink frosted donut, gave it to Libby on a napkin


    49. I stuck the tines of my fork in my bulbous egg yolk and swirled it, smearing the sun


    50. Fully dressed, she scraped the icing from the long cake-knife and cut her arm twice before smearing the blood over the mirror and the door handle








    1. blood smears on a forehead,


    2. art—most of it a bunch of blobs and smears unrecognizable to the eye—that


    3. The blood smears, where he had wiped his hands, did nothing to improve his already dirty HEPO


    4. There were dark red smears on the wall opposite the bed as if someone had squashed flies in temper


    5. “Another legacy of working in munitions”, and she smiled at me and I saw smears of blood on her teeth


    6. Great smears of oil and gas were everywhere as was the stench of the fumes from the trains running above and below him while the echoes of the trains rattled through the silence of the expansion


    7. Even when he smears soap lather over them, I don’t feel anything


    8. Their recourse seeks to avoid the issues by subjecting those who disagree with them to smears, name-calling, and character assassination


    9. To avoid that fate the Obama regime launches massive, vicious, and unrelenting cannonades of smears, calumny, and personal attacks to destroy the character of Tea Party people


    10. Present at the second crime scene were the same hieroglyphic-like, blood smears, a body chopped up into a dozen pieces, a plie of clothes, neatly folded and placed away from the edge of a table, near the dismembered body, but nothing else

    11. , an internist, whom she also saw for pap smears because she hated ob gyn's) thought it was "just" bronchitis, but he never took a chest x-ray


    12. Moreover, that he is here at all smears what reputation he might seek to maintain even more deeply


    13. those smears of mottled colours


    14. She stared wide-eyed for a moment, seeing cuts on his face, smears on his shirt


    15. Raekwon stayed on the floor hiding his pride and covered with red smears on his face


    16. Had it receded even more or was it just the smears I was seeing? I ignored it and in desperate need of a shave, I looked around for some razors but couldn't find any


    17. tissues in her hands and smears down her cheeks that made the


    18. it had three fecal smears and sticky urine inside it


    19. He laid the paper flat on his desk and hurriedly smoothed the wrinkles from the area in which the article was located, in the process covering the palms of his hands with dark smears of ink


    20. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust

    21. He sniffed the air and searched the ground, and saw faint red smears where Darcy had walked


    22. Cars were crooked on the side on the road, some crashed into trees, other with blood smears on the windows


    23. There were blood smears and spatterings everywhere


    24. Singed to the core by the racial smears, Cap’n’s already smoldering temper blew


    25. Her face was ashen, all colour drained away, smears marking her cheeks, the ugly residue of tears shed


    26. He was wealthy and successful, unlikely to miss a few grand; the sort of man vulnerable to such smears


    27. ‘Hark at the youngling,’ mocked Haakon, wiping smears of


    28. She pauses to absorb the scene: the Unseelie blood dripping from the jagged glass that housed the light; the many pieces of unmoving Fae flesh tossed in a heap; the small pile of human parts with wilted flowers placed carefully on top; the footsteps in the scattered debris, trails of blood and smears of green that map out movements


    29. body was covered by the long wool shift – but then Gwenda saw dark smears on her dress that looked like


    30. Twice, a fifth-year takes Frederick’s field glasses and smears the lenses with excrement

    31. It reflected the chalk sky already infused with murky smears


    32. He handed me a tissue and waited while I wiped the black smears from my face


    33. steps the club was busy considering a proper reply in the principal room, littered with exploded cartridges, with a lot of broken glass, blood smears, candlesticks, and all sorts of wreckage on the floor


    34. The great mass of cloud filling the head of the gulf had long red smears amongst its convoluted folds of grey and black, as of a floating mantle stained with blood


    35. Through smears of light that blur my vision, faces leer, loom, but then swoon from me


    36. Somehow I found the strength to lumber forward while the carnival around me blurred and became a place without detail, where those luminous smears of red and blue and gold and white and green whirled and pulsed, swooped toward me and soared as if they were shapeless birds of light


    37. Various dry, muddy smears on the palette confirmed this statement


    38. I could see darkened blood on the blade and reddish smears on the handle


    39. “You can see over here how they were dragged,” Hartwig said, pointing to smears of dried blood visible on the pitched concrete floor


    40. The smears led to car tracks that were clearly delineated in the sparsely traveled soil

    41. The more the room emptied, the more I saw: smears on the walls, stains on the expensive furniture, beer puddled in the carpets, a broken lamp that had probably been worth ten thousand dollars


    42. When it was done, the two of them were covered with splashes and smears of ink, and dripping with sweat


    43. A fine patina of black smears from generations of shoes kicking angrily at its base


    44. There were drops of saliva on it, it had been chewed, and there were blood smears on both sides


    45. The face they had seen briefly as he shouldered past was a sweating, raw, sunblistered pork face, salt droplets under the red eyes, dripping from the chin; great smears of perspiration stained the man’s armpits, coloring his tee-shirt to the waist


    46. The face they had seen briefly as he shouldered past was a sweating, raw, sunblistered pork face, salt droplets under the red eyes, dripping from the chin; great smears of perspiration stained the man's armpits, coloring his tee-shirt to the waist


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    Synonyms for "smear"

    blot smear smirch spot stain daub slur smudge cytologic smear cytosmear malignment vilification asperse besmirch calumniate defame denigrate slander sully blur smutch besmear dab plaster bedaub cover coat apply spray paint libel vilify revile insult traduce beat conquer trounce dirty spatter

    "smear" definitions

    slanderous defamation


    a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope


    a blemish made by dirt


    an act that brings discredit to the person who does it


    stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance


    make a smudge on; soil by smudging


    cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it


    charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone