dauby

/ˈdɔbi/
adjective
  1. Having a sticky, smeary, or soft consistency; easily spread or daubed.
    • The paint was too dauby and wouldn't dry evenly.
    • The dauby mud clung to his boots as he walked through the field.
    • She used a dauby paste to fill the cracks in the wall.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a daub; crude, messy, or unskillfully applied (especially of paint or artwork).
    • His dauby brushstrokes made the portrait look like a child's drawing.
    • The dauby colors ran together on the wet canvas.
    • She criticized the dauby finish of the furniture paint job.
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