bedawbed

Does the worthy gentleman mean that I, who was taught discrimination of character by Johnson, should have omitted his frailties, and, in short, have bedawbed him as the worthy gentleman has bedawbed Scotland?

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

Does the worthy gentleman mean that I, who was taught discrimination of character by Johnson, should have omitted his frailties, and, in short, have _bedawbed_ him as the worthy gentleman has bedawbed Scotland?

Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767

(i.e. not from side to side as it ought to have been, but from corner to corner) and the strokes were all so coarse and uneven, and the whole of the letter so awkwardly spelt, and so unmercifully blotted and bedawbed, that you would have thought it had been the elegant epistle of _Tony Clodhopper_ to his grandmother _Goody Linsey Woolsey_.

Vice in its Proper Shape Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition. Anonymous