smudging

She obsessed about keeping her hair dry and avoided smudging her makeup at all costs.

I like taking that old Hollywood idea and putting rock and roll on top of it and messing it up and smudging it.

The rubbing, or rather smudging, from which the inscription was copied being nearly wholly illegible, accounts for the mistakes.

Beyond glinted the blue of the sea flecked with sails and with here and there a steamer's smoke smudging the horizon.