daubingly
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Adverb[edit]
daubingly (comparative more daubingly, superlative most daubingly)
- 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.
- 1849, John Keese, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Nathaniel Parker Willis, The Opal: A Pure Gift for the Holy Days (page 217)