The wax bullet fragmented, and left an ugly scarlet smear.

The operations-room status board had an ugly red smear across the middle of Vanguard's systems display, right through the docking bay.

And the body of the Bok melted away to nothing but an ugly smear on the ground.

As we left the project, an ugly smear of graffiti told visitors everything they needed to know about the neighborhood.

She could already feel her pulse begin to level off and the ugly smear of terror over her mind fade.

Where they had been was only an ugly smear of blue-gray ash!

An ugly smear of greenish paste covered her wound.

She'd allowed the dough to rise too high, then collapse in ugly smears across the ledge.

Cohaagen was fastidious about appearances; he didn't want any ugly smears remaining.

A soul patch, an ugly smear of growth, sat on his chin like a burrowing insect.