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
The cookies had stuck to one another, and when I pried them apart, I was left with smudgy cookies with sad, pink bald spots showing through the coating.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2022
He even recruits Fleet Foxes, who more than a decade ago brought a keening shimmer to roots-friendly indie rock, making music that was epiphanic and smudgy, and a little grating.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 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
“With all your new gorg, we can’t have you going around with a smudgy face.”
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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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