What is "smudgy"

Usage examples of "smudgy".

The glaring acetylene headlight cut a misty swath through the smudgy gloom.

It gave little vision, except its own distorted reflections, but I could distinguish vaguely the outlines of the old mill with the shadowly raft in the high branches and the smudgy round spots that I knew to be the turkeys roosting.

Ragnack saw the golden sollerets of the knight across the low, smudgy fire.

Signor Verdi has moved her--not just with the tunes of his Requiem, but with the dawning understanding that this monumental work of music, this architecture of sounds to rival the Royal Albert Hall itself, was written on smudgy sheets of paper by a single person: an old Italian fellow with hair in his eyes.

The card stock felt handmade and the words had the smudgy edges of rubber stamp printing.

After dog-earing one smudgy photograph of a 250-year-old house and a handful of tourist guides, he'd been infatuated enough to follow his impulse out here.

Beyond its edge, the smudgy light of a newly risen three‑quarter moon lay upon the thin grass of the opposite hillslope, turning it the color of pewter, and illuminated the bizarre figure of An­tryg Windrose, standing above the body of a young man sprawled at his feet.

It was a sweeping, larger-than-life canvas of royal blues, vivid yellows, and smudgy reddish-orange brush strokes that immediately captured the imagination but seemed completely indecipherable.