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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Smog also wrapped its smudgy grip around Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
“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
With their smudgy lines and soft colors, the paintings have the contours of realism while also dabbling in abstraction.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
Grid View Photos in bright daylight look fine, and even moderately low light images look good enough for social media, though images in very low light are a smudgy mess of noise reduction.
From The Verge ● Feb. 2, 2022
Two or three small children of various sizes, all pale, with smudgy faces and bare smudgy knees, wobbled along in the shadow of her skirts.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
A cloud no larger and smudgier than a high-school boy's hand had dropped its first shadow between them.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
I can spot the smudgiest bus and the most hidden car with ease.
From The Verge ● May 23, 2021
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