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31stringy — a. 1. Fibrous, filamentous. 2. Ropy, viscid, viscous, glutinous, adhesive, smeary, dauby, gluey, tough, tenacious …
32tenacious — a. 1. Retentive, apt to retain. 2. Adhesive, sticky, glutinous, viscous, cohesive, smeary, dauby, clinging. 3. Stubborn, obstinate, pertinacious, opinionated, opinionative, positive …
33daub — I. v. a. Smear, besmear, plaster, cover, bedaub, begrime, soil, sully, defile, deface. II. n. 1. Coarse painting. 2. Smear, smirch, smeary mass …
34smear — 1 noun (C) 1 a dirty or oily mark on something: There were smears of chocolate on Charlie s shirt. 2 a smear test 3 an attempt to harm someone by spreading untrue stories about them smeary adjective 2 verb 1 SPREAD (transitive always + adv/prep)… …
35dirty — 1. adjective 1) a dirty sweatshirt dirty water Syn: soiled, grimy, grubby, filthy, mucky, stained, unwashed, greasy, smeared, smeary, spotted, smudged, cloudy, muddy, dusty, so …
36opaque — adjective 1) opaque glass Syn: nontransparent, cloudy, filmy, blurred, smeared, smeary, misty, hazy; dirty, muddy, muddied, grimy Ant: transparent, translucent, clear …
37adhesive — adj 1. clinging, adhering, sticking fast, tenacious; adhering, gummy, sticky, gummed, smeary, dauby, stringy, ropy; viscid, viscous, glutinous, aggluti nant, agglutinative, mucilaginous. n 2. sticker, label, stamp, Trademark.Scotch tape;… …
38clammy — adj 1. sweaty, damp, moist, wet; rainy, drizzly, misty, vaporous, foggy; chilly, cold. 2. sticky, gummy, pasty, viscous, viscid, ropy, dauby, glutinous, adhesive; smeary, slimy, moldy, Rare. mucid. 3. morbid, sinking, sickly; uneasy, nervous,… …
39blur — [[t]blɜr[/t]] v. blurred, blur•ring, n. 1) to obscure or make indistinct, as by smearing or staining: The fog blurred the outline of the car[/ex] 2) to obscure or sully by smearing or applying a smeary substance 3) to dull the perception or… …
40smudge — [[t]smʌdʒ[/t]] n. v. smudged, smudg•ing 1) a dirty mark or smear 2) a smeary state 3) a stifling smoke 4) agr. a smoky fire, esp. one made for driving away mosquitoes or safeguarding fruit trees from frost 5) to mark with dirty streaks or smears… …
