smudgy

Example Sentences

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Pugh, with her droll line readings and smudgy blue eyeliner, plays apathy better than anyone; she’s compelling even with all the passion drained from her body.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 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

But the smudgy crags of George Pollucci's features melted away as I peered at them, and resolved themselves into a regular pattern of dark and light and medium-gray dots.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath