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

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

There was a new etching to be admired, and they were called on to observe what the baronet called its tones, and what Agatha would have called its degrees of smudginess.

From An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, Bernard