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smudgy

[smuhj-ee] / ˈsmʌdʒ i /
ADJECTIVE
streaky
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Smog also wrapped its smudgy grip around Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

“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

He even recruits Fleet Foxes, who more than a decade ago brought a keening shimmer to roots-friendly indie rock, making music that was epiphanic and smudgy, and a little grating.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 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

Jinny felt herself cutting across the beach alone, carrying her limp bundle beneath the smudgy sky.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

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


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