Smear - Crossword Clue

Crossword Clue Last Updated: 11/04/2024

Below are possible answers for the crossword clue Smear.

6 letter answer(s) to smear

ANOINT
  1. administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing
  2. choose by or as if by divine intervention; "She was anointed the head of the Christian fundamentalist group"
BEDAUB
  1. spread or daub (a surface)
DEFAME
  1. attack the reputation of
  2. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
  3. Insult

4 letter answer(s) to smear

BLUR
  1. a hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz"
  2. become glassy; lose clear vision; "Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep"
  3. become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred"
  4. make a smudge on; soil by smudging
  5. make dim or indistinct; "The fog blurs my vision"
  6. make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
  7. to make less distinct or clear; "The haze blurs the hills"
DAUB
  1. a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
  2. an unskillful painting
  3. apply to a surface; "daub paint onto the wall"
  4. coat with plaster; "daub the wall"
  5. cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it; "smear the wall with paint"; "daub the ceiling with plaster"
  6. material used to daub walls

9 letter answer(s) to smear

DISCREDIT
  1. cause to be distrusted or disbelieved; "The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary"
  2. damage the reputation of; "This newspaper story discredits the politicians"
  3. reject as false; refuse to accept
  4. the state of being held in low esteem; "your actions will bring discredit to your name"; "because of the scandal the school has fallen into disrepute"

3 letter answer(s) to smear

TAR
  1. a man who serves as a sailor
  2. any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
  3. coat with tar; "tar the roof"; "tar the roads"

Other crossword clues with similar answers to 'Smear'

A little oregano in the oil
A slice of roast topped with dash of table salt
Amateurish painting
Apply chrism to
Apron material
Asphalt
Astigmatic's view
Back massage involving student leads to confused impression
Back massage, skirting large unclear spot
Bad photo
Band of cloud
Band's jacket recommendation? Not black
Become hazy
Benzene source
Besmear
Besmirch
Besmirch quisling in retreat
Billy Budd, for one
Bitumen
Bitumen alternative
Black goo
Black gunk
Black top
Blacken
Bless
Bluejacket
Boatman's origins in the arts reassessed
Britpop band - indistinct vision
Brush carelessly
Camel hazard?
Cap'n, say
Celebrity going topless for sailor
Charge falsely
Choose by divine election
Cigarette ingredient
Cigarette stat
Cigarette stuff
Cigarette substance
Cloud
Coat with plaster
Coat with plaster, say
Coat, as with plaster
Complete a street
Concern of some smokers
Confuse
Consecrate
Consecrate, in a way
Content of some pits
Contents of a La Brea pit
Contents of some pits
Cover with bitumen
Creosote source
Crude painting in crate finally fished from river
Damage reputation of French musical
Damage to a reputation
Dark viscid substance
Defame prudent woman hiding second pill
Descriptive prose not entirely an illegible mess?
Deserter’s returning as sailor
Designate
Dinosaur trapper
Drag through the mud
Driveway covering
Driveway material
Driveway sealer
Driveway stuff
Driveway surface
Driveway topper
English rock band, formed in 1988
Feather bed?
Feather's mate
Feather's partner
Flatter all but me and Jack
Fuzzy image
Give a black eye
Gob
Gooey stuff
Haze
Hazy representation
Hull sealant
Ill-defined smear
Ill-repute is harboured by Washington Republican? Correct
Impugn
Indistinct representation
Install in an office
Insult conservative and socialist relations in disgrace
It paves the way
Jack
Jack cheers Romeo
Keeping secrets, policeman covers up last note to ruin someone's reputation
Knock down
La Brea goo
La Brea goop
Liquid used for preserving timber
Low-cal
Macadam ingredient
Main character?
Make dimmer
Make less clear
Make less distinct
Make sacred
Make unclear
Make unclear, novel advert cut short
Make vague promo for jacket with no back
Malign
Mark for greatness
Massage back, squeezing large spot
Memories of a whirlwind t
More despondent, dropping drug in haze
Most of promotional material is obscure
Moving picture?
Mr. Magoo's vision
Naval need of old
Nicotine's partner
North Carolina river
Not finishing publisher’s book info that’s obscure
Obscure band beginning to blow old trumpet
Obscure book recommendation - book withdrawn
Obscure Britpop band
Obscure description of book that's unfinished
Obscure pop group
Obscure promotion, dismissing second book
Obscure publicity material ignoring second book
Obscure second book is excluded from marketing material
Officially choose
Officially designate
Old hand
Old salt
Old-time punishment need
Oozy roofing material
Oozy stuff
Organic sealant
Out-of-focus picture
Outdoor sealant
Paint amateurishly
Paint crudely
Paint none too delicately
Paint unskillfully
Paint without trying to s
Part of a cigarette ratin
Part of cigarette smoke
Partner of feathers
Paving goo
Paving liquid
Paving material
Paving stuff
Photo mishap
Photography woe
Picture problem
Pine product
Pit contents
Pit stuff
Pitch
Pitching choice
Plaster
Plot by Jack introducing primarily unjustified smear
Plot to get gold bullion, primarily, and smear with paint?
Pothole patch
Printed material endlessly creates confusion
Really beat
Record communist facing Italian calumny
Reputational damage in party, mostly concerning Democrat appeal
Result of using the wrong
Road cover
Road crew supply
Road crew's supply
Road goo
Road material
Road sealant
Road surface
Road surfacing material
Road topper
Road-paving stuff
Rock band - make less clear
Roof top
Roofer's supply
Roofing goo
Roofing sealant
Rub guano into shoulders
Sailor
Sailor accounting for most of ship's weight
Sailor cheers end of tour
Sailor cheers run
Sailor from Costa Rica
Sailor gets deserter brought back
Sailor is in mountain lake briefly
Sailor not entirely bitter
Sailor pinching prostitute’s bottom
Sailor putting scoundrel up
Sailor taking part-time soldiers on river
Sailor’s dark waterproof coat
Sailor’s tea urn oddly appearing
Sailor's expression of gratitude, reaching harbour at last
Sailor, colloquially
Salt
Salt content of tobacco
Sea dog
Sea salt
Seafarer
Sealant
Sealer's stuff
Seaman
Seaman army commander finally identifies
Seaman's celebrity son omitted
Seaman's waterproof coat
Select as a successor
Shame! Say it's wrong
Slag off Guardian setter, turning on a Guardian setter
Slander
Slander American woman keeping keys
Slander American woman, European female intervening
Slander, say
Slap on
Small lake would be more than enough for this sailor
Smear (on)
Smear in short piece written about book
Smear most of material for jacket?
Smear name around America
Smear pallet perhaps with gold and black
Smear second book excluded from promotional hype
Smear something on back of book obscuring ending
Smear with sticky stuff
Smear, brutal, unfair - extremely
Smudge
Smudge - Britpop band
Something found in a Parl
Something sticky in pie, unfinished
Source of creosote
Sports photographer's ban
Sprinkle oil on
Sprinkle with oil
Stain round object coloured it
Sticky black stuff
Sticky stuff
Street material
Stuff for surfacing
Stuff in a pit
Subject of a cigarette ra
Substance found in tobacco
Sully
Surfacing stuff
Swab
Swabbie
Taken as read initially, something black
The world, to Mr. Magoo
Thick flammable liquid
Tired, having run 3 as opener? Shame!
Tobacco product
Tobacco residue
Tobacco smoke component
Toni Morrison's "___ Baby
Top player snapping off front tip of stud in pitch
Tried playing record earlier? Rubbish!
Two-lane topper
Unhealthy part of cigaret
University dons brought up poor artist's feeble effort
Verbally thanks sailor
Viscous liquid from tea urn regularly discarded
Viscous liquid; sailor
Viscous substance used in road-making
What can protect wood in burnt arboretum
What helps to coat a road?
Where should I drop off barrels full of gold paint?
Wood by-product
Worker with two-masters
You don't want it beaten
You must tuck into fish spread
___ and feather

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