smudgy

adj

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.”

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, however, any appreciable result.”

   “[…] the black, smudgy fog billowing up before his eyes, blotting out the peculiar smile on the face of the white lady. It was only then that he could feel the cold claws of terror clutching at his throat and heart.”

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[…]”

   “[…] under overcast skies. "It's a smudgy day," Alex observes. Indeed, a light drizzle falls from clouds that look as though they've been rubbed out with a fat eraser.”

   “"Smudgy day," she said. Allmen didn't understand. "It's raining from north, south, east, and west," she said. "Aha. And that's known as smudgy?" "By me it is."”

4. Hot and humid or stuffy; sweltering.

   “[…] and the smudgy heat cast from the cavernous fireplace.”

   “blawing weather[:] Hot close smudgy weather when flies 'blow' or 'strike' sheep very much”

   “A smudgy heat spread a blanket over the city and laid there, unmoved for weeks.”