daubingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

daubing +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

daubingly (comparative more daubingly, superlative most daubingly)

  1. So as to daub or paint carelessly.
    • 1849, John Keese, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Nathaniel Parker Willis, The Opal: A Pure Gift for the Holy Days (page 217)
      Be ever ready to flatter, not grossly or daubingly, as with a heavy trowel, but delicately, with slight shades, as with a finely pointed camel's hair brush whose fine strokes are almost imperceptible.