smearily

smearily

English

Etymology

smeary +‎ -ly

Adverb

smearily (comparative more smearily, superlative most smearily)

1. In a smeary fashion.
   • 1935, Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, Chapter 29,

     Their feeble pamphlets, their smearily printed newspaper, seemed futile against the enormous blare of Corpo propaganda.

   • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 253:

     Here was the pretty Chinese table whose top had been greased smearily by the flat feet of Ariffin doing his little dance.

   • 1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, 1968, pp. 121-122,

     Although her lower lip was thin and she used eyebrow pencil a bit smearily, she had a way with clothes.

Anagrams

• mislayer