Blur, smear

Usage examples of smudge.

Scarlet clusters of acne stood out on his cheeks, and his glasses, retro Buddy Holly, were smudged at the corners where he was fiddling with them.

There was something very peculiar about this woman, Benedict decided as he eyed her mussed hair and then the dark smudge of dirt that adorned one of her cheeks.

Far before him Bibbs saw the great smudge upon the horizon, that nest of cloud in which the city strove and panted like an engine shrouded in its own steam.

Latent had pulled fifty million smudged partials from the caduceus buttons.

Its bright black flue pipe fits snugly into the smudged old fireplace of ugly fieldstones.

Purple smudges persisted beneath his eyes, and his lean face was even gaunter than usual, yet his gaze was clear and alert.

We are three days from the caravanserai, riding side by side along a road now lined with twisting pines, and Haiming is only two days away, a petrochemical smudge on the northeastern horizon.

While he sang in a strange language, Hopscotch smudged his body with the burning torch until he looked like a grilled fish.

In the opening to the grotto, Meersh beheld strange finery every day: linen robes and striped headdresses beside smudges that looked like tailcoats and ruffles, bustiers and hoop-skirted ball gowns, liripipes and lithams.

The rainforest grew dark first, the clear outlines of the giant tree ferns smudged and then blackened into darkness while high up in a yellow wood tree a couple of green loeries called out one last time before they called it a day.

Her mascara had smudged, making the bags under her eyes more pronounced.

He looked a little surprised when I dropped the pile on a table beside him, for it was an unprepossessing mound of smudged and wrinkled and mildewed papers of all different sizes.

I stopped at a service station and picked up a one-page map of the town, which was shaped like a smudge on the eastern edge of Nota Lake.

Wolfgang nodded his head at the screen, where the big display showed the smudged and raddled face of Earth.

The hallway had been repapered, but there were still smudged spots on the ceiling plaster to remind her of the fire.