Paint poorly
The crossword clue "Paint poorly" is answered by DAUB, a 4-letter entry. Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
DAUB
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the DAUB answer page.
Used 10 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1972. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for DAUB
Every other clue in this collection answered by DAUB, most used first.
- Smear - used 80 times, most recently in 2026
- Paint crudely - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
- Apply crudely - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- Paint unskillfully - used 17 times, most recently in 2015
- Apply finger paint - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
- Paint sloppily - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
- Smear (on) - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
- Apply crudely, as paint - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
- Slap on - used 9 times, most recently in 2021
- Apply haphazardly - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- Finger-paint - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
- Apply paint hastily - used 6 times, most recently in 2013
- Apply sloppily - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
- Paint carelessly - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Slap on, as paint - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Smear, as paint - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Paint layer - COAT, used 89 times
- Layer of paint - COAT, used 85 times
- Feels poorly - AILS, used 61 times
- Paint can direction - STIR, used 20 times
- Paint can instruction - STIR, used 12 times
- Poorly lit - DARK, used 12 times
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