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Paints Badly Crossword Clue

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noun

• material used to daub walls

• a blemish made by dirt

• an unskillful painting

verb

• coat with plaster

• apply to a surface

• cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it

33%8 He paints badly, so becomes an actor
adjective

• of or relating to drama

noun

• a theatrical performer

22%6 A source of inks and paints
noun

• a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition

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