Difference between Daub and Smear

What is the difference between Daub and Smear?

Daub as a noun is a soft coating of mud, plaster etc. while Smear as a noun is a mark made by smearing.

Daub

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A soft coating of mud, plaster etc. A crude or amateurish painting.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To apply something to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.

Smear

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing.To have a substance smeared on (a surface).To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about an individual, their statements, or their actions.To become spread by smearing.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A mark made by smearing.A Pap smear.A false attack.

Example sentence: President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.

We hope you now know whether to use Daub or Smear in your sentence.

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