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
“Show Your Hand” memorializes the incident with an artfully smudgy rendering of the athlete and a set of 15 small paintings of the audience at the tournament.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 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
I told her it was just a pigeon, but she denied it, holding up the smudgy Xerox as proof.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
A cloud no larger and smudgier than a high-school boy's hand had dropped its first shadow between them.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
I can spot the smudgiest bus and the most hidden car with ease.
From The Verge ● May 23, 2021
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