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Sketched husband wearing make-up with daughter (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

roughed

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'sketched' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with creating things as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'husband wearing make-up with daughter' is the wordplay.
'husband' becomes 'h'.
'wearing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'make up' becomes 'rouge' (rouging is a kind of making up).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'daughter' becomes 'd' (genealogical abbreviation).
'h' inserted inside 'rouge' is 'roughe'.
'roughe'+'d'='ROUGHED'

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