smudgy
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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
The aqueous picture, whose smudgy core mingles brown and deep green, memorializes the Lenape natives who once settled the harbor area, and also invokes the recent birth of the painter’s child.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 1, 2022
Diop’s voice-over guides us through smudgy, decades-old home videos that she scans for traces of her mother, who only appears fleetingly, at the edges.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 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
It looked smudgy, so I wiped it with the little gray cloth.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
A cloud no larger and smudgier than a high-school boy's hand had dropped its first shadow between them.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
I can spot the smudgiest bus and the most hidden car with ease.
From The Verge ● May 23, 2021
