smudgy

• “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

• “Allan kind of smudgy & out of focus because its real old.”

  Unmanned

• “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

• “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.”

  All Discussion Groups: Message List - root

• “Her hair was a tangled mess, her Cleopatra-style eye make-up had gone smudgy.”

  The Guardian: The strange case of Liz Taylor as a 'real woman' role model | Catherine Bennett

• “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 Wall Street Journal: The Perfect Webcation

• “I take it that alcaucil means “artichoke” (or “pimp”!), but to me it looks smokey and smudgy and ashen — like something from a chimney.”

  Extra-muros

• “Time is out of joint in his smudgy, shadowy drawings, where motifs or characters pop up willy-nilly in unexpected eras and places.”

  The Guardian: This week's new exhibitions

• “To me the Lumi looked like smudgy blobs and that was that.”

  Fictionaut: A Taste For Music

• “Speaking as somebody who really, really loves make-up – all of it, from the grimace of a meat-red lipstick to the story told by a smudgy eye that shows someone's been crying – false eyelashes make me uneasy.”

  The Guardian: Up front: Eva Wiseman

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