smudgy
Americanadjective
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marked with smudges; smeared; smeary.
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emitting a stifling smoke; smoky.
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British Dialect. humid; sweltering; sultry.
adjective
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smeared, blurred, or soiled, or likely to become so
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made deliberately indistinct or cloudy
smudgy colours
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This is especially apparent in Act Two, when the cramped stage renders the comic choreography smudgy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2025
A pitch-black background is speckled with thousands of distinct lights, some starlike in their brilliance, others smudgy, and still others smaller than pinpoints.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2022
He even recruits Fleet Foxes, who more than a decade ago brought a keening shimmer to roots-friendly indie rock, making music that was epiphanic and smudgy, and a little grating.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
Instead of coming with the same shiny, instantly smudgy stainless steel case as Master & Dynamic’s previous earbuds, these include a redesigned case made from woven Kevlar fiber.
From The Verge ● Jul. 27, 2021
Two or three small children of various sizes, all pale, with smudgy faces and bare smudgy knees, wobbled along in the shadow of her skirts.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
A cloud no larger and smudgier than a high-school boy's hand had dropped its first shadow between them.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
I can spot the smudgiest bus and the most hidden car with ease.
From The Verge ● May 23, 2021
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