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Crossword-Solution: SMEAR 5 letters, 415 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Smear n. To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive;
to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.
Smear n. To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain
morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.
Smear n. A fat, oily substance; oinment.
Smear n. Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive
substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.

Anagrams

Word Anagrams
SMEAR anagram AMERS, ARMES, ARSEM, ERMAS, MARES, MARSE, MASER, MEARS, RAMES, REAMS, SAMER, SEMAR, SERAM, SMAER, SREAM

We have 415 clues for the answer “SMEAR”

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"___ the sleepy grooms with blood." 1 answer
Application error, perhaps 1 answer
Apply Vaseline 1 answer
Apply Vaseline or jelly 1 answer
Apply jam 1 answer
Apply jelly 1 answer
Apply liberally, as jelly 1 answer
Apply lipstick poorly 1 answer
Apply lipstick unsteadily 1 answer
Artist's mishap 1 answer
Attack ad insult 1 answer
Attack ad tactic 1 answer
Attack ad, at times 1 answer
Attack ad, maybe 1 answer
Attack-ad inclusion 1 answer
BLOOD on glass slide for examination under a microscope 1 answer
Bad mouth 1 answer
Baseless attack 1 answer
Become unsteady applying lipstick 1 answer
Bedaub with oily stuff 1 answer
Below-the-belt campaign tactic 1 answer
Besmirch the reputation of 1 answer
Bit of campaign ugliness 1 answer
Bit of character assassination 1 answer
Bit of election season ugliness 1 answer
Bit of negative campaigning 1 answer
Bit of painting carelessness 1 answer
Bit of ugly campaigning 1 answer
Bit of ugly politics 1 answer
Blur by rubbing 1 answer
Blur, as wet ink 1 answer
Blurry mess 1 answer
Calligraphy fail 1 answer
Campaign abuse 1 answer
Campaign brickbat. 1 answer
Campaign calumny 1 answer
Campaign dirt 1 answer
Campaign dirty trick 1 answer
Campaign low blow 1 answer
Campaign strategy 1 answer
Campaign tactic, sometimes 1 answer
Campaign unpleasantry 1 answer
Campaigner's dirt 1 answer
Campaigner's dirty trick 1 answer
Campaigner's low blow 1 answer
Cervical cancer diagnostic test 1 answer
Character assault 1 answer
Cheap Super PAC attack 1 answer
Common campaign strategy 1 answer
Cosmetic mishap 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMECZA
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eruption
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Sentences with SMEAR (5)

Those who had been greedy with the staves of the cask, had acquired a tigerish smear about the mouth; and one tall joker so besmirched, his head more out of a long squalid bag of a nightcap than in it, scrawled upon a wall with his finger dipped in muddy wine-lees--BLOOD.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
Superintendent, suddenly pointing to a little smear of the decorative painting on Miss Rachel’s door, at the outer edge, just under the lock.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994
There was a smear or so of blood, though very little; but the body was bent or broken into a posture impossible to any living thing.
The Innocence of Father Brown G. K. Chesterton 1995
His wife pretended not to see him rub the back of his hand across his eyes, nor the smear in the coal-dust on his black face.
Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence 1995
Else, having shorn, they smear their bodies o'er With acrid oil-lees, and mix silver-scum And native sulphur and Idaean pitch, Wax mollified with ointment, and therewith Sea-leek, strong hellebores, bitumen black.
The Georgics Virgil 2008

Quotes with SMEAR (3)

Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to.
Jodi Picoult Handle with Care
Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.
Marie Lu Champion
Alice's dinner consisted of one-half cup medium-grain white rice (120 calories), four spears of asparagus (20 calories), and a pat of butter (40 calories). Bones watched as she used her index finger to smear the butter on an asparagus spear. Then she sucked her middle finger, pretending to remove the excess butter. The buttered finger scratched an ankle, and the calories disappeared into her leg warmer." Tricky," he said under his breath. She smiled. "Just good technique.
Sherry Shahan Skin and Bones
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 613 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).