Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective smeared thickly.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
daub .
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Examples
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When, at the end of the campaign, John McCain daubed Obama with the tag of “redistributionist,” Obama aides were relieved to find that the label did not change voters’ perception of Obama.
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When, at the end of the campaign, John McCain daubed Obama with the tag of “redistributionist,” Obama aides were relieved to find that the label did not change voters’ perception of Obama.
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Roger Daltrey, frontman of The Who, wore a T-shirt proclaiming Davis's innocence, with the convicted man's name daubed across railway and road bridges.
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Grace was alone when she was murdered, unlike Sharon Tate whose five guests were slaughtered with her, and "daubed" was a fanciful description for the arterial splatters of blood on Grace's wall.
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Walls in Jmayl were daubed with the slogan "Only God and Muammar."
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The wall behind the child is daubed with racist graffiti and a splattered tomato lies on the ground near her.
Watch: Rockwell Civil Rights Painting Hung Outside Oval Office
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The portraits that line a newly refurbished gallery provide a record of what might be called "ordinary" people, though Charles Dickens, on a visit to the U.S. in 1842, dismissed the works because they were of the "middling classes," deriding one as being by a traveling painter who had just "daubed the door of a nearby inn."
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The wall behind the child is daubed with racist graffiti and a splattered tomato lies on the ground near her.
Watch: Rockwell Civil Rights Painting Hung Outside Oval Office
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Pearl Hand and I shared a small cabin consisting of cane walls daubed with mud to keep the wind out.
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A mosquito stung her on the neck, and she daubed the unprotected spot with wet clay from a ball she had convenient to hand.
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