smudgy

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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

The lines, made with graphite or silverpoint, waver slightly; the surfaces are often smudgy or blotchy.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 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

Instead of coming with the same shiny, instantly smudgy stainless steel case as Master & Dynamic’s previous earbuds, these include a redesigned case made from woven Kevlar fiber.

From The Verge • Jul. 27, 2021

I brought it up next to the smudgy photograph of the dead girl.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath