Crossword-Solution: SMEARING 8 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Smearing p. pr. & vb. n. of Smear

We have 15 clues for the answer “SMEARING”

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Campaign dirty tricks 1 answer
Campaigner's calumnious act 1 answer
Dauber's activity 1 answer
Defaming 1 answer
Doing a poor window-washing job 1 answer
Spreading slander 1 answer
Tactic used in some campaigns 1 answer
Unfair campaign tactic 1 answer
Using questionable campaign tactics 1 answer
Using unethical campaign tactics 1 answer
Wet ink concern 1 answer
Political tactic 4 answers
ACT OF TAKING THE PLACE OF ANOTHER ESPECIALLY USING UNDERHANDED TACTICS 11 answers
vilifying 26 answers
Backbiting 48 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SMEARING (5)

These motions, although unquestionably of the greatest assistance to original composition, retard in some degree the progress of the writer; and Sam had unconsciously been a full hour and a half writing words in small text, smearing out wrong letters with his little finger, and putting in new ones which required going over very often to render them visible through the old blots, when he was roused by the opening of the door and the entrance of his parent.
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 2009
Attempts to insulate the line wire were limited to coating it with tar or smearing it with wax for the benefit of all the bees in the neighborhood.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin 2006
How can I go home when everybody’s miserable to see me! I wonder,” said Biler, blubbering outright, and smearing his eyes with his coat-cuff, “that I haven’t been and drownded myself over and over again.” All of which, including his expression of surprise at not having achieved this last scarce performance, the boy said, just as if the teeth of Mr Carker drew it out of him, and he had no power of concealing anything with that battery of attraction in full play.
Dombey and Son Charles Dickens 1997
Smearing its gold on the sky, the fire dances, lances itself through the doors, and lisps and chuckles along the floors.
Men, Women and Ghosts Amy Lowell 1997
For the rest, it was cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the discoloured patches by smearing them with ink.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle 2002

Quotes with SMEARING (3)

And so these refined parents rejected their five-year-old girl to all kinds of torture. They beat her, kicked her, flogged her, for no reason that they themselves knew of. The child’s whole body was covered in bruises. Eventually they devised a new refinement. Under the pretext that the child dirtied her bed (as though a five-year-old deep in her angelic sleep could be punished for that), they forced her to eat excrement, smearing it all over her face. And it was the mother t…
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov
Wearing fake happiness is as good as smearing foundation. A bit of moisture drains it all.
Aniruddha Sastikar
She accepted it uncertainly. “This will help?” Without waiting for an answer, with that unsettling trust of hers, she popped open the lid and dug in her finger, smearing the slick substance on and around her mouth. Going outside of the lines, as he deduced she did with most everything in her life. When she was done, she looked absolutely ridiculous. Caine barely resisted smiling at her. “It will help immensely.
V.S. Carnes
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.

Used 12 times in crossword archives (1983–2022).