smudge
noun
a dirty mark or smear.
Example Sentences
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Others minded our having the weeklies coming "smudgily from flatbed presses."
From Time Magazine Archive
Inconsequentially, his vagrant mind recalled that, below Miami, the Southern Cross is smudgily visible on the horizon, somewhere around two in the morning.
From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Albert Payson Terhune
There is something very rough and ready about it all, and the new portions print darker and more smudgily than the old, except toward the left, where they have missed ink and indented.
From In the Days of the Comet by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It was addressed in an unfamiliar and painful chirography, with the postmark of Portland, Ore., stamped smudgily in its corner.
From The Plunderer by Douglas Duer
What keeps them at it in the damp dug-outs with the indelible pencil running smudgily over the paper?
From Thoughts on religion at the front by N. S. (Neville Stuart) Talbot
