adjective
- marked, touched, or handled by fingers; having fingerprints or finger marks on
Usage: often used in a negative or critical sense to describe something soiled or damaged by handling
Examples
- The befingered glass door needed cleaning after the children had played outside.
- She wiped down the befingered surfaces of the museum display case.
- The old book's pages were befingered from decades of careful reading.
- The befingered windows made it hard to see outside clearly.
- He complained about the befingered state of the shared tablet in the office.