smudgy

Example Sentences

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This is especially apparent in Act Two, when the cramped stage renders the comic choreography smudgy.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2025

The cookies had stuck to one another, and when I pried them apart, I was left with smudgy cookies with sad, pink bald spots showing through the coating.

From Washington Post • Sep. 6, 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

Instead of coming with the same shiny, instantly smudgy stainless steel case as Master & Dynamic’s previous earbuds, these include a redesigned case made from woven Kevlar fiber.

From The Verge • Jul. 27, 2021

I brought it up next to the smudgy photograph of the dead girl.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath