1. making dirty or staining with soot, dirt, or other dark substances
Usage: present participle of smutch

Examples

• The chimney sweep was smutching his clothes with soot.
• She avoided smutching her white dress near the fireplace.
• The children were smutching their hands with charcoal.
• Rain was smutching the freshly painted fence.
• He kept smutching the paper with his dirty fingers.