smudgy

Example Sentences

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This is especially apparent in Act Two, when the cramped stage renders the comic choreography smudgy.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2025

“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

There it was again at the Chanel couture show, where makeup artists painted smudgy black circles around some of the models’ eyes, a look reportedly inspired by 1920s avant-garde art.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 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

Danny pressed his hands on the surface, leaving behind smudgy fingerprints.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova