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  • adverb In a smudgy manner.

Etymologies

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smudgy +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • There is something very rough and ready about it all, and the new portions print darker and more smudgily than the old, except toward the left, where they have missed ink and indented.

    In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

  • What keeps them at it in the damp dug-outs with the indelible pencil running smudgily over the paper?

    Thoughts on religion at the front 1911

  • Inconsequentially, his vagrant mind recalled that, below Miami, the Southern Cross is smudgily visible on the horizon, somewhere around two in the morning.

    Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • There is something very rough and ready about it all, and the new portions print darker and more smudgily than the old, except toward the left, where they have missed ink and indented.

    In the Days of the Comet 1906

  • Sandy was once more demonstrating his inefficiency as a cook, and when he remembered that Sandy's name was printed smudgily upon that page of his life which he had lately turned down as a blotted, unlearned lesson is pushed behind an unwilling schoolboy, he began to consider seriously his next step.

    The Uphill Climb B. M. Bower 1905

  • Since his meeting with her he had tried to read some of the journals devoted to her faith, and had found them incredibly inane -- smudgily printed, slovenly of phrase, and filled with messages from Aristotle, Columbus, and

    The Tyranny of the Dark Hamlin Garland 1900

  • "This is not a magazine," the first issue yelled, smudgily.

    The Guardian World News Eva Wiseman 2011

  • The arrival of an envelope from Beverly Farms, Mass. -cheap, white, with the home address stamped smudgily in the top left corner-never failed to make my heart skip.

    Slate Magazine 2009

  • A red star, mark of extreme approbation, blazed, albeit smudgily (for Alice had wept over it in secret joy during the major part of the dinner hour), on the front page of Alice’s notes.

    Laurels are Poison Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1942

  • A red star, mark of extreme approbation, blazed, albeit smudgily (for Alice had wept over it in secret joy during the major part of the dinner hour), on the front page of Alice’s notes.

    Laurels are Poison Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1942

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