Smudgers

Smudgers, in a general sense, refer to individuals or things that create smudges or smears. This term often applies to people who habitually leave marks or blemishes, either intentionally or unintentionally. They might be careless, messy, or simply lack attention to detail. The effect created can range from subtle imperfections to significant disfigurement, depending on the context and medium involved. More specifically it could describe someone who defaces something or someone, or something that can be used to create a smudge. The word can also refer to someone who uses a technique to blur edges or soften images.

Smudgers meaning with examples

• The art classroom was always a mess, with paint splatters and charcoal dust everywhere. The kids, little smudgers, loved experimenting with the various mediums, leaving their fingerprints on everything in sight. Though it meant extra cleaning for the teacher, it also meant imagination and a love for art was brewing in the young smudgers.
• The new detective, a meticulous man, found the crime scene frustrating. The smudgers, the paramedics, had inadvertently disturbed crucial evidence, leaving fingerprints and muddy footprints that obscured valuable clues. The detective struggled to reconstruct the scene, hampered by the careless handling of the initial responders. The smudgers would later have to answer for their lack of care.
• As a photographer, he specialized in portraiture, using soft-focus lenses and clever techniques. He embraced the tools available that would make him a smudger of beauty to his subjects. The goal was to create a dreamlike, ethereal quality to the images, using a variety of filters, lenses, and digital post-processing to enhance the final product. This style suited his desire to make magic.
• The old parchment manuscript, unfortunately, was handled by many clumsy hands over centuries. Now the text has faded, but the ink remains, and it is very hard to read as the letters have been smudged and blurred. This unfortunate state was thanks to the many smudgers that had handled the precious text over time. Without proper care and preservation it was now a lost cause.