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Word entry · 6 letters

smeary

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"Full of streaks"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈsmɪəɹi/Sorted aemrsyStarts with SEnds with Y1 clues
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Definitions

  1. Having or showing smears.

Word origin

From Middle English *smery, *smeri, from Old English smeoruwiġ (“fatty, greasy, unctious, smeary”), from Proto-West Germanic *smerwig, equivalent to smear + -y.

Used in a sentence

  • I voice the weary, smeary ones of earth, The helots of the sea and of the soil.
  • They had Rembrandt on the calendar that year, a rather smeary self-portrait due to imperfectly registered colour plates.
  • The letters were executed clumsily, with a smeary black kindergarten exuberance.

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