smearer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The walls, strongly built of stones, are still breast-high, and the marks of the smearers’ fingers on the plaster inside plainly visible."
- "[…] most of the Ukiyo e, or pictures in the popular style, are prints struck from wood blocks and are the joint production of the artist, the wood engraver, the color smearer and the printer, all of whom have contributed to and are more or less entitled to credit for the result:"
- "Spiro Agnew thought it enough to label journalists as liberals in order to establish their untrustworthiness, which is the method of a smearer in all ages."
- "2003, Thomas J. Gardner and Terry M. Anderson, Criminal Law, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 8th edition, Part 4, Chapter 17, p. 374, The cyber smearer puts out false information on the Internet about the company, leading people to sell shares, driving the price down."
- "[…] a picture painted by some German smearer of the early sixteenth century; very ugly, stupid, and unattractive; ill drawn, ill composed, of a uniform hard, vulgar brown."
- "He made his living as a housepainter when he first came to this country and says even now, “I was a good one—not a smearer.”"
Etymology
From smear + -er.