dauby
/ˈdɔbi/
adjective
- 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.
- 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.