finger mark
noun
a mark, especially a smudge or stain, made by a finger.
finger-marked
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a word derived from
finger mark.
Example Sentences
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I had a terrible time getting the necessary export permit, a document about ten pages long, smudged and finger-marked, dotted with tax stamps, official stamps, signatures and more signatures.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Stringfellow flipped through the finger-marked pages, read an 11-year-old question: "If there is any nickel in iron, does it adversely affect the life of the cell?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, as Lon nodded, he slipped the letter deftly from the finger-marked envelop and read the contents with a smile.
From From the Valley of the Missing by Grace Miller White
"Will you stay with this?" the Colonel had asked Keith hurriedly, nodding at the treasure-covered table, and catching up the finger-marked block before Jack was a yard from the window.
From The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins
They sat against the dirty rear wall, whose white paint was finger-marked, fly-specked, and food-spotted, and in which a shelf-aperture furnished the connection with the kitchen.
From The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim
