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Smudgy

adjective

Smeared with something that soils or stains; these words are often used in combination. "Hostile faces smirched by the grime and rust" , "Ink-smudged fingers"

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Etymology of 'Smudgy'

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"Smudgy" Quotes from Famous Books

... as I look back I see more clearly the plan of a human life. The rocks, the curves and the struggles fit into a divine engineering plan to soften the steepness of the ascent. The bumps are lifts. The things that seem so important down in the smudgy, stormswept valley, seem so unimportant as we go higher up the mountain ...

— The University of Hard Knocks • Ralph Parlette

... into her fair, upturned face and thought that even in the smudgy lantern's glow it looked like the face of some ministering angel. His own rugged visage worked with emotion. He could have kneeled to her, kissed her hand, touched the hem of her gown. But he only gave back her hand in a gentle manner, ...

— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry

... always gets a grubby hole to work in." Kathryn fidgeted. "I daresay he is working now in some smudgy old place." ...

— At the Crossroads • Harriet T. Comstock

... smile, although her eyes Were only smudgy smears; And then she swished her swirling arms, And wagged her gorgeous ears, She sobbed a blue-and-green-checked sob, ...

— Masterpieces Of American Wit And Humor • Thomas L. Masson (Editor)

... orders, and a babel of abuse at the second table was hurled at Coutlass and his friends; but they lid not leave the table because there was another course to come, and, as the manager had said, they were greedy. Then in came the guard, his face a blood-and-smudgy picture of discontent. ...

— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy

Words linked to "Smudgy" : soiled, dirty, unclean, smudge