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
Now performing as Snoh Aalegra, she has settled into a mellower R&B sound better suited to her voice — a smudgy, reserved yet emotive alto that Prince, who mentored her, praised for its “analog” appeal.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2022
The lines, made with graphite or silverpoint, waver slightly; the surfaces are often smudgy or blotchy.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2022
Grid View Photos in bright daylight look fine, and even moderately low light images look good enough for social media, though images in very low light are a smudgy mess of noise reduction.
From The Verge ● Feb. 2, 2022
I told her it was just a pigeon, but she denied it, holding up the smudgy Xerox as proof.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
A cloud no larger and smudgier than a high-school boy's hand had dropped its first shadow between them.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
I can spot the smudgiest bus and the most hidden car with ease.
From The Verge ● May 23, 2021
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