smudgy

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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

A pitch-black background is speckled with thousands of distinct lights, some starlike in their brilliance, others smudgy, and still others smaller than pinpoints.

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 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

Two or three small children of various sizes, all pale, with smudgy faces and bare smudgy knees, wobbled along in the shadow of her skirts.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath