smudginess
- a word derived from smudgy.
Example Sentences
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That periodic smudginess is less bothersome than you’d think, though.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023
They often look uncomfortably grainy, and there’s a smudginess to most shots that had me searching through the camera app’s settings to make sure I didn’t have a weird setting turned on.
From The Verge • Oct. 11, 2021
He declared himself to be "by nature a lover of smudginess," and inquired: "May not half the Art be learned from the gradations in coffee grounds?"
From Time Magazine Archive
I nearly always block out my skies, and so strengthen the other parts of my negatives, that I can rely on a full exposure without fear of heaviness or smudginess.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 by Various
It began to drift on the air, touched a building, and left a spot of smudginess, before it drifted on, getting thinner with each gust of wind.
From Pursuit by Del Rey, Lester
