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Meaning smear meaning

What does smear mean?
Definitions in simple English

smear Verb

— If you smear a substance on a surface, you spread it by rubbing.

smear

— noun a thin tissue or blood sample spread on a glass slide and stained for cytologic examination and diagnosis under a microscope — noun slanderous defamation — verb stain by smearing or daubing with a dirty substance — verb (= smudge) make a smudge on; soil by smudging — verb (= daub) cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it smear the wall with paint daub the ceiling with plaster — noun (= blot) an act that brings discredit to the person who does it he made a huge blot on his copybook — noun (= smudge) a blemish made by dirt he had a smudge on his cheek — verb (= defame, sully) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone The journalists have defamed me! The article in the paper sullied my reputation

Synonyms smear synonyms

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smear English » English

daub anoint spread paint stain smudge smirch plaster apply rub coat slander spot slur grease blot besmear sully besmirch blemish bedaub rub on defame wipe udder spread out speck soil denigrate dab cover blur vilification splotch smut overlay oil moil mark malignment dirty calumniate blacken vilify varnish unroll unfurl unfold tarnish taint

Topics smear topics

What do people use smear to talk about?
Physical actions Move something Cover

Spread, smear
Universe, creation World Solid, liquid, gas

Oil
Daily life Adornment

Anoint the body

Conjugation smear conjugation

How do you conjugate smear?

smear · verb

Examples smear examples

How do I use smear in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Smear your bodies.
Let's hope we really smear them this time.
Make a blood smear of this for me, will you, please?
If you shoot, baby, you'll smear us all over the highway.
Well, smear on your own varnish.
Go carry them; and smear the sleepy grooms with blood.
I never knew anybody to survive one of the Banner's smear campaigns.
Just one of the Banner's smear campaigns!
It's a smear of.
Smear it as far out as you can.
I take that crack as a smear on my professional talents.
I wanted to be sure he didn't smear your lipstick.
He wants me to print a dirty little smear item, in exchange for keeping his mouth shut.
A smear.
As Bill says, and have you smear our names all over your paper. you headline hunter.
This is going to be some smear.
What about this lipstick smear?
A smear? What kind of a smear?
JJ, I presume you saw the Elwell smear.
They're already traced the smear to you?
She said there was nothing to the smear.
Mr Hunsecker, there is nothing to this smear. You have my sincere word.
You were there, Frank. According to St Dallas, JJ was behind the Elwell smear.
Unless they get some dough to smear the jailies with.
You've got your story in the desk. Smear it all over the front page.
Don't smear it.
No, al, i probably wouldn't. but i could, and i almost would to show you how easy it is to smear a person.
He's so dirty, he's going to smear the entire house.
Don't you dare to smear Comrade Lenin! For such talk I can give it to you!
I don't wanna smear my lipstick.
And anyone who tries to smear Stig Nyman in my presence.
And don't you dare to smear the teacher's chair with glue!
In this manner, you have to smear it in that manner, in this way here!
Always we must smear this way!
Even the smear of blood that I saw in the corner of her mouth.
In 22 seconds, I could pinch your head off like a fucking insect. and smear it all over the fucking pavement.

News and current affairs

A recent smear campaign aimed at discrediting polio vaccination, in which several MPs publicly took part, has complicated matters further.
This lamentable tradition was common to both Conservatives and Labour; and yet, unfairly, it was the Labour Party that was most contaminated by the smear that it could not be trusted to manage the economy.
Diagnosis is cheap, simple, and quick: for a few US cents, microscopic examination of a sputum smear can reveal the bacilli in less than 1 hour.
What started out as an investigation into alleged graft soon became an opposition-supported smear campaign.
Villepin, a former Prime Minister for Chirac, awaits judgment on charges of having organized a smear campaign against his rival for the presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy.

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