Splodgy

Next to it, my headmaster wrote “Great Stuff!” and there are a couple of splodgy inkstains, where he claims he laid his head down on the exercise book and cried with laughter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you're trying to get some fall off from a soft but otherwise splodgy light: I'd try dropping some strategic flags black so as not to bounce light elsewhere in the room between the softened light and the face, arranged orthogonally. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Chance for visitors to tell the Tate what that splodgy picture means ❋ Unknown (2004)

He used to ride in bare-back on a big old splodgy dray-horse named Tom, which had been worked in the dray and at the plough until there was only jog-trot servility left in him. ❋ G. Firth Scott (1900)

This extra large wrap with its splodgy 'mud' print is just the thing to get you through the early days of the new season - and beyond. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The mother is also talking on her mobile phone to another mother, making arrangements to pick up the other mother's child after school - plus micro-scooter and splodgy painting of something or other and violin - and take him or her home for more emergency snacks. ❋ Oliver Pritchett (2012)

That was not the case a generation ago, when the television picture quality was too splodgy to do them justice. ❋ Christopher Howse (2012)

Eighties by two-tone grey wallpaper, elaborate flower displays, splodgy abstracts and floor-length material covering the tables like skirts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ground was a little splodgy, but pony seemed happy enough.

The Cave Girl service is white china decorated with splodgy black cave-painting-style animals, footprints and wheels (£75 for a plate; 020 7499 2823, thomasgoode. co.uk). ❋ Unknown (2009)

"chunky, and her skin was oddly splodgy, pink leaking into whiteness, like strawberries in cheesecloth being squeezed for jam." ❋ Unknown (2009)