Definition of "bedaubs" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bedaub. (verb)

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• "The public is astonished into liberality — the scullion eats from those trenchers he scoured before — the footman is admitted into the coach behind which he was wont to stand — and the bricklayer, instead of plastering walls, bedaubs his illustrious partner with the mortar of his praise."
• "The literal meaning of this line is, When the death-salve bedaubs"
• "His sin bedaubs him, mars all his good impression."