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splotch

[sploch] / splɒtʃ /
NOUN
smudge
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG




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Doc pulled a pen from his shirt pocket and outlined the outer edge of a fuzzy, misshapen splotch about the size of my thumb.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 2024

About the size of my thumbprint, gray with white and black bands and a distinctive orange splotch on its wing, I almost missed it.

From National Geographic • Dec. 7, 2023

He held it defiantly, waiting for the camera to zoom in on his folded brown splotch.

From Slate • Dec. 1, 2023

The bathrooms are four port-a-potties, blue siding a splotch of color in a landscape of beaten-down squalor at the base of a flourishing grove of eucalyptus trees.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2023

With a palette balanced in my left hand, I press the tip of my brush into the gray splotch of acrylic paint.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman




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