smeary
Example Sentences
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The eeriest costume this Halloween season would be Aunt Gladys, with her odd copper wig, oversized sunglasses, blue eyeshadow, and smeary red lipstick.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025
This Toronto five-piece makes — and on its third album, “Blue Rev,” perfects — a kind of inverted shoegaze: big-hearted, smeary dream-pop oriented toward the sky.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
The 4-megapixel UDC still looks fairly smeary, and I’d only use it as a last resort.
From The Verge ● Aug. 17, 2022
The same national shape appears in this show, constructed not of wooden pieces but of smeary, overlapping graphite gestures.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
It's long dried now, but the smeary lines running side to side suggest someone -who perhaps was not fully in control of his mental faculties -tried to wipe it away.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
