Example Sentences

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That periodic smudginess is less bothersome than you’d think, though.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2023

They often look uncomfortably grainy, and there’s a smudginess to most shots that had me searching through the camera app’s settings to make sure I didn’t have a weird setting turned on.

From The Verge • Oct. 11, 2021

He declared himself to be "by nature a lover of smudginess," and inquired: "May not half the Art be learned from the gradations in coffee grounds?"

From Time Magazine Archive

I nearly always block out my skies, and so strengthen the other parts of my negatives, that I can rely on a full exposure without fear of heaviness or smudginess.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 by Various

There was a new etching to be admired, and they were called on to observe what the baronet called its tones, and what Agatha would have called its degrees of smudginess.

From An Unsocial Socialist by Shaw, Bernard