Brush and Sketch

Brush

Brush verb - To move or proceed smoothly and readily.

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Sketch and brush are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sketch" instead a verb "Brush".

Nearby Words: brushed, brushing, brushy

Sketch verb - To draw or make apparent the outline of.

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Brush and sketch are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Brush" instead a verb "Sketch".

Nearby Words: sketchy, sketched, sketching

brief	brief brush	brief sketch
single	single brush	single sketch
rough	rough brush	rough sketch
small	small brush	small sketch
Other adjectives: black, final, short-lived, next, one-time, previous.

German comedian Otto Waalkes has made a sketch where a friendly priest holding a tv-sermon tells us about a friend of his, a millionaire, who came to him in great distress: he had dropped his shaving brush into the toilet that morning.

Source: Appeal to Worse Problems
Parodied in a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch where the regular female host of a female-oriented talk show (Woman To Woman, Maternity Matters) is unavailable, so the show's producer, a gruff, irascible, insensitive man named Roger Brush (Fred Armisen), fills in.

Source: Guest Host

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