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• n  a smoky fire to drive away insects
• n  a blemish made by dirt
  he had a smudge on his cheek
• v  make a smudge on; soil by smudging

• The more affordable Dell Photo Printer 540, is a compact printer that specializes in thermal-dye (read: smudge-proof) 4x6 photo prints.
• His simple answer: "By the smudge over in the corner.
• You get fast, smudge-free images that, generally speaking, pass the picture-quality test.

• spot
• blot
• daub
• smear
• smirch
• slur
• blur
• smutch

News & Articles

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• Tradition, weather collide for US Open at Merion
  ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) — Under bright sunshine and a gentle breeze, Sergio Garcia signed autographs near the tee box at the 16th hole during his final practice round for the U.S. Open. He then sent his drive in the direction of one of those charming red wicker baskets that sit atop the flagpoles, the white ball coming to rest nicely in the middle of the fairway with nary a smudge of mud.
  June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Tradition of Merion meets a traditional golf foe _ weather _ as US Open returns after 32 years
  ARDMORE, Pa. — Under bright sunshine and a gentle breeze, Sergio Garcia signed autographs near the tee box at the 16th hole during his final practice round for the U.S. Open. He then sent his drive in the direction of one of those charming red wicker baskets that sit atop the flagpoles, the white ball coming to rest nicely in the middle of the fairway with nary a smudge of mud.
  June 13, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• Tradition, weather collide for US Open at Merion - NBC40.net
  ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) - Under bright sunshine and a gentle breeze, Sergio Garcia signed autographs near the tee box at the 16th hole during his final practice round for the U.S. Open. He then sent his drive in the direction of one of those charming red wicker baskets that sit atop the flagpoles, the white ball coming to rest nicely in the middle of the fairway with nary a smudge of mud.
  June 13, 2013 - NBC40 South Jersey

Quotes

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• Conan O Brien in The Associated Press
  This is the only way I can sing Thom Yorke songs, as a 19th-century chimney sweep with a top hat and a smudge on my cheek,O'Brien said.
• Paul Tibbets in Reuters South Africa
  If Dante had been with us on the plane, he would have been terrified,Tibbets said later. "The city we had seen so clearly in the sunlight a few minutes before was now an ugly smudge. It had completely disappeared under this awful blanket...
• Wade Phillips in SI.com
  To quote me as saying black mark, that's an Eastern term. That's a Connecticut term,Phillips said. "I might use smudge or something like that from Texas. ...... I'm sure he misconstrued what I said."