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smudged
adjective as in dirty
Strongest matches
adjective as in unclean
Weak matches
adjective as in uncleanly
Weak matches
- bedraggled
- begrimed
- contaminated
- cruddy
- crummy
- defiled
- disarrayed
- dishabille
- disheveled
- dreggy
- dungy
- dusty
- filthy
- foul
- fouled
- greasy
- grimy
- grubby
- grungy
- icky
- lousy
- messy
- mucky
- muddy
- murky
- nasty
- polluted
- raunchy
- scummy
- scuzzy
- slatternly
- slimy
- sloppy
- slovenly
- smutty
- soiled
- sooty
- spattered
- spotted
- squalid
- stained
- straggly
- sullied
- unclean
- undusted
- unhygienic
- unkempt
- unlaundered
- unsanitary
- unsightly
- unswept
- untidy
- unwashed
- yucky
Example Sentences
There are letters so old the mimeographed typewriting is smudged and difficult to read.
Then she disappeared, leaving me by myself in that flimsy little dress, my makeup smudged and my hair all over the place.
Right now the pages of that dictionary—particularly when it comes to the hoped-for outcome of these talks—are rather smudged.
If Katchor sets a scene in front of a computer, expect to see sardine oil smudged across the screen.
I wore smudged black eyeliner, stacked dozens of Madonna-style plastic bracelets on my wrists and wore doorknocker hoop earrings.
She'd ground out lipstick-smudged cigarettes until the ash tray was spilling over.
Her face was smudged with coal-dust and was beaming with good-humor—earthly dirt, supernatural glory.
Joby wetted his thumb, smudged out a bit of the Equator on each side of the cock's nose, and the bird stood up and shook himself.
My victim was a stunned -- but cute -- girl with spider-webs drawn on her hands and smudged mascara running down her cheeks.
Her hair was disheveled, her sleeves rolled back, and her face smudged from her smudgy fingers.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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