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Definition of Smear

Smear

  1. To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.
  2. To soil in any way; to contaminate; to pollute; to stain morally; as, to be smeared with infamy.
  3. A fat, oily substance; oinment.
  4. Hence, a spot made by, or as by, an unctuous or adhesive substance; a blot or blotch; a daub; a stain.

Smear Quotations

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.
Paul Ryan

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
George Soros

There is no need to smear my name or to defame my character for the sake of news.
Ricky Williams

The natural gas industry has worked long and hard to smear Josh Fox, the director of 'Gasland,' and has failed.
Jeff Goodell

The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!
LeRoy Neiman
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Smear Translations

smear in Dutch is smeren, sauzen, doorsmeren, besmeren
smear in Finnish is voidella
smear in German is schmieren
smear in Italian is ingrassare
smear in Portuguese is mancha
smear in Spanish is untar
smear in Swedish is smeta

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