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

It slurps and slithers around in your head in great smeary splodges, like a cornucopia of slugs.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 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