bedaubing

Politicks without bedaubing his fingers, and every one who does is a dirty fellow.

John Adams diary 12, 30 December 1765 - 20 January 1766 1961

He stopped twice, it is true, and examined carefully his car; but the only result of his search was a plentiful bedaubing of oil and gasoline on his hands and of roadway dust on his clothing.

The Tangled Threads 1894

"How you can make up your mind to spend all your days bedaubing your clothes with those nasty paints passes my comprehension."

A Bookful of Girls Anna Fuller 1884

A few seconds sufficed to reveal the fact that beyond the scare and a liberal bedaubing of mud, no damage had been done: and as for the buggy, when it was once more placed in its proper position, it was ascertained that with the assistance of a single strap it would answer his purpose during the remainder of the journey.

Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There 1880

It is argued that this is all deliberate -- is an effect of premeditation: that Rabelais had certain home-truths to deliver to his generation, and delivered them in such terms as kept him from the fagot and the rope by bedaubing him with the renown of a common buffoon.

Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation William Ernest Henley 1876

The nearer the Philosophers approached, the more maudlin and effusive these unprincipled young females became, flinging their arms tragically round my neck, and bedaubing my face with their dewy kisses.

Tom, Dick and Harry Talbot Baines Reed 1872

A gentleman [1] confined in the women's part of the Prefecture, chancing to look down from a high window on the offices of the main building, saw beneath him eight men in the uniform of the Commune, one of them wearing much gold lace, who were saturating the window-frames with something from a bottle, and bedaubing other woodwork with mops dipped in a bucket that he presumed contained petroleum.

France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863

The tribes are continually at war with one another, and have regular pitched battles; but the moment that one is killed on either side, the battle ceases, until they carry off their dead, and mourn for certain days, according to their custom; bedaubing themselves over with black earth, and on another day the fight begins and ends in a similar way.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 George Grey 1855

The only other vestige of drawing contained in the cave is evidently the mere impression of a hand, which has been rubbed over with the red paint with which the natives are in the constant habit of bedaubing themselves, and has then been pressed in on the wall.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 George Grey 1855

Their progress is more a sprawl than a walk; a continuous climb and scramble over trunks of fallen trees, many so decayed as to give way under their weight, letting them down to their armpits in a mass of sodden stuff, as soft as mud, and equally bedaubing.

The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mayne Reid 1850