smearily
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adverb
[edit]smearily (comparative more smearily, superlative most smearily)
- In a smeary fashion.
- 1935, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 29, in It Can’t Happen Here[1], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran:
- Their feeble pamphlets, their smearily printed newspaper, seemed futile against the enormous blare of Corpo propaganda.
- 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 253:
- Here was the pretty Chinese table whose top had been greased smearily by the flat feet of Ariffin doing his little dance.
- 1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life[2], Penguin, published 1968, pages 121–122:
- Although her lower lip was thin and she used eyebrow pencil a bit smearily, she had a way with clothes.