Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Stained or blackened with smudge; smeared: as, a smudgy shop.
- Making a smudge or dense smoke: as, a smudgy fire.
- Stifling; close.
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- adjective
Blurred , sort ofsmudged . - adjective Like a thick
smoke (such as is emitted by asmudge pot ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination
Etymologies
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Examples
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The screen can get kind of smudgy after it has been pressed against your face but that's why they've given you headphones with a mic.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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The screen can get kind of smudgy after it has been pressed against your face but that's why they've given you headphones with a mic.
Worth the Wait 2007
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Allan kind of smudgy & out of focus because its real old.
Unmanned Stephen Oliver
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When I was a beginner in portrait-painting, I remember that, after I had succeeded in making my background stay back where it belonged, my figure sometimes had a way of clinging to it in a kind of smudgy weakness, as if it were afraid to come out like a man and stand the inspection of my eye.
Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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The older drawing shows text "smudgy", while the same piece of text inserted into a "fresh" drawing made from the acad. dwt shows the text much clearer.
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The older drawing shows text "smudgy", while the same piece of text inserted into a "fresh" drawing made from the acad. dwt shows the text much clearer.
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The older drawing shows text "smudgy", while the same piece of text inserted into a "fresh" drawing made from the acad. dwt shows the text much clearer.
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The older drawing shows text "smudgy", while the same piece of text inserted into a "fresh" drawing made from the acad. dwt shows the text much clearer.
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Her hair was a tangled mess, her Cleopatra-style eye make-up had gone smudgy.
The strange case of Liz Taylor as a 'real woman' role model | Catherine Bennett 2011
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The cameras are often not maintained as well as they should be, or at all, and even when they're functioning smoothly the images they're transmitting can be pretty smudgy.
The Perfect Webcation Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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