smudgy

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Smudgy cartoonlike pastels coexisted with raw plaster works and jewel boxes bedecked elaborately with wool, glass, straight pins, knives and sometimes taxidermized birds — animistic objects that resembled little else being made in the 1960s.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2024

Smudgy backdrops recall vintage graphic screenprints or storybooks, as insects, animals, and the attributes of the region’s delicate flora are drawn in affecting detail.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2019

Smudgy and grainy, but also elegant and strong, Serra’s blurred lines balance the industrial and the poetic.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2015

Smudgy, but if you hold it off like that it's more like what I meant to do.

From The Old Blood by Palmer, Frederick