smearily

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

smeary +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

smearily (comparative more smearily, superlative most smearily)

  1. 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.

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