smudgy

Example Sentences

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Pugh, with her droll line readings and smudgy blue eyeliner, plays apathy better than anyone; she’s compelling even with all the passion drained from her body.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2025

“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

With their smudgy lines and soft colors, the paintings have the contours of realism while also dabbling in abstraction.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 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

He’d drawn the entire thing sort of smudgy, to reflect how he saw her through the curtain of fog around them.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon