smudged
Example Sentences
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"Smudged, I should say. Rather than muddier, it's more smudged and smeared around, the sound on that record."
From Salon • Oct. 29, 2022
Smudged with ash and dirt, he presented the recovered valuables to his wife, who had been waiting patiently at the Red Cross shelter in Kernville.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2016
Smudged, he said, and stained and badly expressed as if the writer—this girl—this Effie Bright—was crying and incoherent with distress when she wrote it.
From If Winter Comes by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)