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What is the adjective for smudging?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb smudge which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

smudgy
  1. Marked with smudges.
  2. Like a thick smoke (such as is emitted by a smudge pot).
  3. Synonyms:
      4. streaky, banded, striped, barred, stripy, streaked, striated, lined, veined, brindle, brindled, striate … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Having been promised the moon, we wound up dealing with polluted water, smudgy air, declining heath and income disparities of the worst kind.”
      “The smudgy appearance of the manuscript seems to be the result of wear and tear.”
      “In design terms it's a dog's breakfast, a grey, smudgy mess that seems to stagger off ancient presses each week.”
smudged
  1. Blurred as by being rubbed.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dirty, filthy, begrimed, soiled, cruddy, draggled, foul, grimy, smutty, stained, sullied, unclean, befouled, bemired, besmirched, dusty, grubby, grungy, mucky, bedraggled, black, blackened, dingy, grotty, muddy, sordid, uncleanly, nasty, sooty, polluted, scuzzy, slimy, yucky, smeared, squalid, gungy, messy, manky, unwashed, festy, skanky, bogging, unhygienic, tarnished, unsanitary, spotted, sloppy, scungy, contaminated, icky … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Dirty or smudged lens elements make it quite difficult to obtain any proper focus of the image.”
smudgeable
  1. Capable of being smudged.
smudgeproof
  1. Resistant to smudging.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. antismudge
smudgier
  1. comparative form of smudgy: more smudgy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. streakier, stripier, more barred, more streaked, more striated, more lined, more veined, more brindle, more brindled, more striate … more
smudgiest
  1. superlative form of smudgy: most smudgy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. streakiest, stripiest, most barred, most streaked, most striated, most lined, most veined, most brindle, most brindled, most striate … more
smudging
  1. present participle of smudge
  2. Synonyms:
      3. staining, soiling, dirtying, daubing, sullying, besmirching, befouling, smearing, muddying, smirching, begriming, fouling, blackening, griming, spotting, miring, defiling, tainting, mucking, bemiring, tarnishing, distaining, marking, gauming, spattering, blotching, bedaubing, dotting, blotting, splotching, flecking, streaking, splodging, specking, slopping, plastering, blobbing, striping, polluting, contaminating, discolouring, spoiling, discoloring, corrupting, bespattering, splashing, making dirty, tarring, blemishing, splattering … more
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