Painty

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  • adj. Covered or smeared with paint.
  • adj. Having too much paint.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Overcharged with paint; displaying obtrusively or inharmoniously the colors which have been used or the manner of using them.
  • Smeared or spotted with paint: as, his clothes are all painty.
  • Word Usage
    "The portrait of Mrs. Berkeley Hammond on which he had been working sat smugly upon one of his easels, a thing of shreds and patches (though the lady was in pearls and a DrŽcoll frock), a thing "painty" without being direct, mannered without being elegant, highly colored without being colorful, a streaky thing with brilliant spots, like the work of"
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