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In a smearing manner, as with dirt, soot, or ink.

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Usage examples (6)
  • 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...
  • What keeps them at it in the damp dug-outs with the indelible pencil running smudgily over the paper?
  • 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.
  • 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,...
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