besmears

And instead of repairing and heightening the piece judiciously, with soft colors and a delicate pencil, — with a coarse brush and a great deal of whitewash, he daubs and besmears the piece he means to adorn.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Hoccleve's Poems, with a Glossary; an Answer to Thomas Paine; the Life of Lord Howe; a Supplement to Johnson's Dictionary: in the ill-tempered preface to which, he thus strangely speaks of that Dictionary: -- "this muddiness of intellect sadly besmears and defaces almost every page of the composition."

On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton

He staggers and falls; his head strikes the curb-stone; the blood besmears his face; the police lift him up and start with him to the station house.

Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures George W. Bain

Now if he that covers himself "dishonoreth his head"; he that besmears his child with mud, how can it be less than making it abominable?

NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

This discovers that it is the body that first sullies and besmears the soul; here is the malum propter vicinum malum, this is the unhappy neighbourhood; for no sooner are they joined, no sooner are the body and the soul made brothers, but they are brethren in iniquity.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII. 1634-1716 1823

Indiscriminate flatterers are no better than the snake which besmears its prey with slime, only to gorge it the more easily.

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 Samuel James Arnold 1813

And instead of repairing and heightening the piece judiciously, with soft colors and a delicate pencil, -- with a coarse brush and a great deal of whitewash, he daubs and besmears the piece he means to adorn.

Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1750 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

And instead of repairing and heightening the piece judiciously, with soft colors and a delicate pencil, -- with a coarse brush and a great deal of whitewash, he daubs and besmears the piece he means to adorn.

Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733

If our portly friend from Market Hilton had possessed the eyes of an Auguste Dupin, he could not have failed to note that my dress boots were caked with light yellow clay; which also, by the way, besmears my trousers. "

Bat Wing Sax Rohmer 1921