See daub in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2023 March 8, “Network News: First Tyne & Wear Metro '555' already 'tagged'”, in RAIL, number 978, page 9:",
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"ref": "1725, Isaac Watts, chapter 3, in Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC, part II (Of Judgment and Proposition), section 1, page 189:",
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"text": "1826, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, An Essay on Mind, Book I, in The Earlier Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826-1833, London: Bartholomew Robson, 1878, pp. 25-26,\nIf some gay picture, vilely daubed, were seen\nWith grass of azure, and a sky of green,\nTh’impatient laughter we’d suppress in vain,\nAnd deem the painter jesting, or insane."
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"ref": "1940, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 15, in For Whom the Bell Tolls, London: Jonathan Cape, page 185:",
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"ref": "1952, Patricia Highsmith, chapter 3, in The Price of Salt, Norton, published 2004, page 39:",
"text": "Blood was running to her shoe, and her stocking was torn in a jagged hole. […] she wet toilet paper and daubed until the red was gone from her stocking, but the red kept coming.",
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"ref": "1969, Chaim Potok, The Promise, New York: Fawcett Crest, Book 3, Chapter 16, p. 379:",
"text": "They were expecting to see me, she said, daubing paint on the canvas and stepping back to gauge the effect.",
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"ref": "2007, Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain, New York: Weinstein Books, Book 1, Chapter 21, p. 226:",
"text": "Cylindrical lanterns daubed in red writing hung at intervals across wooden beams […]",
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"ref": "2023 March 8, “Network News: First Tyne & Wear Metro '555' already 'tagged'”, in RAIL, number 978, page 9:",
"text": "Unfortunately, one side of the new five-car train is daubed in graffiti, having been vandalised in Wembley Yard, en route from Switzerland.",
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"ref": "1695, Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, Observations on the Art of Painting, London: W. Rogers, page 201:",
"text": "[…] a lame, imperfect Piece, rudely daub’d over with too little Reflection and too much haste.",
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"ref": "1725, Isaac Watts, chapter 3, in Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC, part II (Of Judgment and Proposition), section 1, page 189:",
"text": "If a Picture is daub’d with many bright and glaring Colours, the vulgar Eye admires it as an excellent Piece […]",
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"text": "1826, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, An Essay on Mind, Book I, in The Earlier Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1826-1833, London: Bartholomew Robson, 1878, pp. 25-26,\nIf some gay picture, vilely daubed, were seen\nWith grass of azure, and a sky of green,\nTh’impatient laughter we’d suppress in vain,\nAnd deem the painter jesting, or insane."
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"ref": "1964, Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, Vintage, published 2010:",
"text": "[…] this stretch of the shore is still filthy with trash; high-school gangs still daub huge scandalous words on its beach-wall, and seashells are still less easy to find here than discarded rubbers.",
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"ref": "1820, John Clare, “The Universal Epitaph”, in Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, London: Taylor & Hessey, page 91:",
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"ref": "1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, London: R. Baldwin, Volume 2, Letter 28, p. 73:",
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"text": "1697, John Dryden, “On the Three Dukes killing the Beadle on Sunday Morning, Febr. the 26th, 1670/1” in John Denham et al., Poems on affairs of state from the time of Oliver Cromwell, to the abdication of K. James the Second, London, p. 148,\nYet shall Whitehall the Innocent, the Good,\nSee these men dance all daub’d with Lace and Blood."
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"ref": "1762, Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, London, Volume 1, Letter 50, p. 224:",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "capam",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "цапам"
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"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "empastifar"
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"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "naplácat"
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"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "kliederen"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "kladschilderen"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "besmeren"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "barbouiller"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "emboutar"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "klecksen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "schmieren"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "bemalen"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "bestreichen"
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"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "poni"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "rámázol"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "ráken"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "odamázol"
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"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "imbrattare"
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"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
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"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "pani"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "pomazać"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "borrar"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "mázatʹ",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
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"word": "ма́зать"
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"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "sloisir"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "namrljati"
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"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "manchar"
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"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
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"word": "acemice boyamak"
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"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "dåborer"
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"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "tchabårer"
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"code": "yi",
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"roman": "patshken",
"sense": "to apply something in hasty or crude strokes",
"word": "פּאַטשקען"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to cover with a specious or deceitful exterior",
"word": "kaschieren"
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