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Recent Examples of smudgy
His palette is light, smudgy guitar textures and warm synths; his message, more gestural than discursive, is love and lust.
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Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2025
It-girl energy that refuses to fade—from lacey slips to pencil skirts and smudgy, smoky eyeliner, the codes of that decade still define what’s cool.
—Beatrice Zocchi, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smudgy
Adjective
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By the closer — a grim, sooty final reckoning with the events of June 13 — the colourful escapism of the Uphaar’s Bollywood posters suddenly looks half a world away.—
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Carbon condenses into sooty dust in the rapidly whirling wind, which glows in infrared light that is invisible to the human eye.—
Adjective
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Choose from smoky shades of jet-black, purple, and midnight blue.—
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Fermentation, which uses yeast to break down the sugars in grape juice, transforming single-note sweetness into the complex, delicious alcohol enjoyed by so many, also unlocks those smoky compounds; so, too, can the enzymes in human saliva.—
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Casey would also pair Hidden Gem with warm metals like unlacquered brass and hammered iron alongside milky whites and deep jewel tones.—
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Red jelly and milky white polishes make for an irresistibly pretty set.—
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“Smudgy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smudgy. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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