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smearily

UK/ˈsmɪəɹɪli/US/ˈsmɪɹɪli/

smearily adverb: in a smeary fashion.

Adverb

smearily (comparative more smearily, superlative most smearily)

  1. In a smeary fashion.
    • Their feeble pamphlets, their smearily printed newspaper, seemed futile against the enormous blare of Corpo propaganda.1935, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 29, in It Can’t Happen Here, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran
    • Here was the pretty Chinese table whose top had been greased smearily by the flat feet of Ariffin doing his little dance.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 253

Forms of smearily

comparativemore smearily
superlativemost smearily

Origin of smearily

From smeary + -ly.

Words that rhyme with smearily

Questions about smearily

What does smearily mean?
Smearily means in a smeary fashion.
What part of speech is smearily?
Smearily is an adverb.
How do you pronounce smearily?
Smearily is pronounced /ˈsmɪəɹɪli/ (UK).

Words near smearily in the dictionary

  1. smearest
  2. smeareth
  3. Smeargate
  4. smearier
  5. smeariest
  6. smearily
  7. smeariness
  8. smearing
  9. smearings
  10. smearless
  11. smearproof

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