daubs in English

noun
1
plaster, clay, or another substance used for coating a surface, especially when mixed with straw and applied to laths or wattles to form a wall.
square huts, mostly daub and wattle
2
a painting executed without much skill.
It's a natural assumption that his daubs and the words he writes in them and alongside them somehow inform one another, but that's to ignore the more telling effect writing has in his early work.
verb
1
coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance in a carelessly rough or liberal way.
she daubed her face with night cream
synonyms:smearbedaubplastersplashspattersplattercakecoversmothercoat
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Use "daubs" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "daubs" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "daubs", or refer to the context using the word "daubs" in the English Dictionary.

1. Synonyms for Bemires include soils, stains, daubs, dirties, mucks, muddies, sullies, befouls, besmirches and fouls

2. Synonyms for Besmears include smears, daubs, bedaubs, stains, sullies, dirties, soils, smudges, anoints and taints

3. Synonyms for Befouls include dirties, soils, stains, fouls, muddies, blackens, smudges, sullies, begrimes and daubs

4. Synonyms for Bedaubs include smears, besmears, daubs, spatters, stains, anoints, bespatters, smirches, soils and splashes

5. Wood and Garden Anemones Create carpets of flowers or jewel-like daubs of colour with Anemones.They will flower early next spring from February to April

6. And when the Christian condemns, abuses, and daubs "the world" in filth, he does so from the same instinct from which the Socialist worker condemns, abuses, and Befouls "society" - the sweet, consoling affect of revenge

7. 16 He had the mien of the chief of the eunuchs in the slave mart, discovering a Venus among the blowsy females, and the air of an amateur recognizing a Raphael in a heap of daubs.