smudgey

Adjective

smudgy (comparative smudgier, superlative smudgiest)

1. Marked with smudges.
   • As you know, an ordinary unhairy face like yours or mine simply gets a bit smudgy if it is not washed often enough, and there's nothing so awful about that. But a hairy face is a very different matter.1979, Roald Dahl, The Twits
2. Like a thick smoke (such as is emitted by a smudge pot); thick and smoky or smokelike.
   • Pierre lighted his pipe and immediately the air about him because heavy, not with the aromatic perfume of choice Havanna but with a smudgy fog that made John cough. The cough was genuine, but John emphasized it a little as a suggestion that the coarse odor was anything but welcome- without...1918, The Saturday Evening Post, page 13
3. Rainy or drizzly.
   • Smudgy weather greeted Torpedo Five who had to dodge cloud banks and rain squalls as they flew at altitudes between 3,000 and 4,000 feet toward Guadalcanal and Tulagi. Finally the large island of Guadalcanal loomed ahead. Soon, they[…]1998, American Aviation Historical Society, AAHS Journal
4. Hot and humid or stuffy; sweltering.
   • […] and the smudgy heat cast from the cavernous fireplace.1985, Anne Moore, Tangled Vows, →ISBN