smudgy
Example Sentences
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Danny pressed his hands on the surface, leaving behind smudgy fingerprints.
From Literature
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Pugh, with her droll line readings and smudgy blue eyeliner, plays apathy better than anyone; she’s compelling even with all the passion drained from her body.
From Los Angeles Times
This is especially apparent in Act Two, when the cramped stage renders the comic choreography smudgy.
From Los Angeles Times
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
The aqueous picture, whose smudgy core mingles brown and deep green, memorializes the Lenape natives who once settled the harbor area, and also invokes the recent birth of the painter’s child.
From Washington Post
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