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
“Show Your Hand” memorializes the incident with an artfully smudgy rendering of the athlete and a set of 15 small paintings of the audience at the tournament.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2022
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
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
He’d drawn the entire thing sort of smudgy, to reflect how he saw her through the curtain of fog around them.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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
