ppl. a. [f. SMUDGE v.1] Marked with smudges; smeared, besmirched; applied in a smeary manner.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., IV. 199. To bee seene … with a smodged face.
1658. Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 1037. Having a black smudged face.
1839. Thackeray, Major Gahagan, vi. Uncurled wigs, smudged rouge, blear eyes.
1897. Bookman, Jan., 122/2. At an age when most children labour wearily to fill a smudged half sheet of paper with bald facts and insincere wishes.
Hence Smudgedly adv., in a smudged manner.
1889. Fabian Ess., 217. We shall see as in a glass, darkly, or smudgedly,… that confrontation of rich and poor.
