1. made dirty or stained with soot, dirt, or grime
Usage: past tense of smutch

Examples

• His white shirt was smutched with coal dust after working in the basement.
• The children’s faces were smutched from playing in the garden.
• She smutched her apron while cooking over the wood stove.
• The old photograph was smutched and barely recognizable.
• His hands were smutched with ink from the printing press.
• The wall was smutched where people had touched it with dirty fingers.