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tars with the same brush

tars with the same brush is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tar with the same brush.

Meaning of tar with the same brush

Verb

tar with the same brush (third-person singular simple present tars with the same brush, present participle tarring with the same brush, simple past and past participle tarred with the same brush)

  1. (figuratively, transitive) To characterize (someone or something) using the same undesirable attribute, especially unjustly.
    • The C Party have tarred themselves with the same brush as the B Party.

Questions about tars with the same brush

What is tars with the same brush the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Tars with the same brush is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tar with the same brush.

Words near tars with the same brush in the dictionary

  1. Tarrys
  2. Tarrytown
  3. tars
  4. tars and feathers
  5. tars out
  6. tars with the same brush
  7. tars with the same stick
  8. tars-
  9. tars-and-feathers
  10. tarsal
  11. tarsal bone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tars with the same brush (page history and authors); tar with the same brush (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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