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.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Days of the Comet] Reference

What keeps them at it in the damp dug-outs with the indelible pencil running smudgily over the paper?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on religion at the front] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slate Magazine] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tyranny of the Dark] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Uphill Climb] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laurels are Poison]