Definitions
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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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Full of streaks”6 letters
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