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Adjectives (6)

adj. smeared thickly: "cheeks beplastered with cosmetics"; "savage bodies besmeared with war paint"; "mud-daubed walls"

adj. smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination; "oil-smeared work clothes"; "hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust"- Henry Roth; "ink-smudged fingers"

Fuzzynyms (8)

besmirched, damaged, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished

adj. especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished reputation"; "inherited a spotted name"

Synonyms (67)

ariled, arillate

adj. (of some seeds) having a fleshy and usually brightly colored cover

awninged

adj. covered with an awning; "with awninged windows on the west side"

barnacled

adj. covered with barnacles; "the barnacled hull of a wrecked ship"

canopied

adj. covered with or as with a canopy; "a canopied bed"; "streets canopied by stately trees"

wrapped, clothed, draped, cloaked, mantled

adj. covered with or as if with clothes or a wrap or cloak; "leaf-clothed trees"; "fog-cloaked meadows"; "a beam draped with cobwebs"; "cloud-wrapped peaks"

coated

adj. having a coating; covered with an outer layer or film; often used in combination; "coated paper has a smooth polished coating especially suitable for halftone printing"; "sugar-coated pills"

crusted, encrusted

adj. having a hardened crust as a covering

drenched, drenched in

adj. abundantly covered or supplied with; often used in combination; "drenched in moonlight"; "moon-drenched meadows"

moon-splashed, moon splashed

adj. splashed or covered patchily with moonlight; "the moon-splashed world"

mossgrown, mossy, moss-grown

adj. overgrown with moss

mud-beplastered

adj. covered with or as if with mud; "mud-beplastered arguments"

muffled

adj. wrapped up especially for protection or secrecy; "children muffled almost to the eyebrows"

overgrown

adj. covered with growing plants

sealed

adj. covered with a waterproof coating; "a sealed driveway"

smothered

adj. completely covered; "bonnets smothered with flowers"; "smothered chicken is chicken cooked in a seasoned gravy"

snowy, snow-clad, snow-covered

adj. covered with snow; "snow-clad hills"; "snow-covered roads"; "a long snowy winter"

splashed

adj. covered with bright patches (often used in combination); "waves dabbled with moonlight"; "a blood-spattered room"; "gardens splashed with color"; "kitchen walls splattered with grease"

strewn, strewn with

adj. covered by or as if by scattering something over or on: "the forest floor strewn with boulders"; "the petal-strewn aisle"

sun-drenched

adj. covered with sunlight; "sun-drenched beaches along the Riviera"

thickspread

adj. covered thickly; "toast thickspread with jam"

tiled

adj. covered or furnished with tiles; "baths with tiled walls"; "a tiled kitchen"

Augean

adj. extremely filthy from long neglect

bedraggled, draggled

adj. limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud; "the beggar's bedraggled clothes"; "scarecrows in battered hats or draggled skirts"

befouled

adj. made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"

grubby, begrimed, dingy, grimy, grungy

adj. thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

bespattered, spattered, splashed

adj. spattered or spotted with dirt or filth; often used in combination; "dingy bespattered walls"; "a grease-spattered floor"; "a besplashed coach"; "mud-splashed trouser legs"

buggy

adj. infested with bugs

dusty

adj. covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"

fecal, feculent, faecal

adj. foul with waste matter; of or relating to feces

foul, filthy, nasty

adj. disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"

flyblown, squalid, sordid

adj. foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns"

lousy

adj. infested with lice; "burned their lousy clothes"

maggoty

adj. spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies; "flyblown meat"; "a sack of maggoty apricots"

muddy, mucky

adj. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable"

scummy

adj. covered with scum; "the scummy surface of the polluted pond"

snotty, snot-nosed

adj. dirty with nasal discharge; "a snotty nose"; "a house full of snot-nosed kids"

travel-soiled, travel-stained

adj. soiled from travel; "travel-soiled clothes"

unwashed

adj. not cleaned with or as if with soap and water; "a sink full of unwashed dishes"

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