having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies"
lacking substance or vitality as if produced by painting; "in public he wore a painted smile" coated with paint; "freshly painted lawn furniture" having makeup applied; "brazen painted faces" represented in a painting; "as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean