Sentence:  He looked round the poor room, at the <WSD>distempered</WSD> walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To paint using distemper.