smeary
Example Sentences
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The eeriest costume this Halloween season would be Aunt Gladys, with her odd copper wig, oversized sunglasses, blue eyeshadow, and smeary red lipstick.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2025
Alongside Carti on their collaborations “Timeless” and “Rather Lie,” Tesfaye grounded his pal’s smeary Atlanta noise with evilly pretty melody.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2025
Other paintings deepen the idea of “dungeon”: One smeary figure eight is the board for a Hannah Montana-branded version of the tabletop game Mall Madness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
Warn makes layered abstractions on wooden panels, partly covering repeated geometric figures such as concentric circles with smeary, wax-based encaustic pigment.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2022
Not just because she says so, but because the writing goes all smeary and the paper crinkles.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
