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(Of soil) soft and watery.
muddy
sloppy
soggy
marshy
swampy
waterlogged
miry
mucky
squashy
quaggy
wet
muddy
sloppy
soggy
marshy
swampy
1
The
muddy
trail I had left ten days ago seemed quite undisturbed.
2
It shows an open sea with no sign of the
muddy
causeway.
3
She rests in her grave on the
muddy
bottom of the Roanoke.
4
He watched the rivulets of
muddy
water course over his brother's grave.
5
The game trail was wide and
muddy
,
trampled flat by large animals.
1
In fact, the way many of us climb today promotes
sloppy
belaying.
2
But Mr Lumsden said
sloppy
paperwork was only part of the problem.
3
The visitors fell behind to a
sloppy
goal after just nine minutes.
4
New Zealand's work at the back of the breakdown was also
sloppy
.
5
National MPs said the bill was a lazy,
sloppy
piece of work.
1
How could any sort of industry be possible under these
soggy
conditions?
2
The buckets and spades; the
soggy
sandwiches; the rain; the cramped car.
3
Most common is that fried food is heavy, greasy,
soggy
,
and unhealthy.
4
Everywhere the ground was
soggy
;
little streams of water trickled down ditches.
5
A welcome reprieve for both the police and the city's
soggy
residents.
1
For a long while, I made my way through a
marshy
area.
2
In the course of the afternoon, the soil became soft and
marshy
.
3
The frogs were making merry in the
marshy
fields along the avenue.
4
They lived there in the country, in a barren and
marshy
locality.
5
In
marshy
soils, the slaves who cultivate the sugar cane suffer severely.
1
Most of the country was
swampy
,
the mules sinking chest-deep in mud.
2
The meadow mice are bluish grey and are found in
swampy
places.
3
We came upon
swampy
ground; just beyond it a road crossed ours.
4
Our alligator inhabits the rivers and
swampy
districts of the southern states.
5
It's this
swampy
patch that runs right through the center of town.
1
My
waterlogged
turnouts must have weighed five times what they weighed dry.
2
Her
waterlogged
fingers felt cold and numb against the M-16's metal receiver.
3
The
waterlogged
feeling was gone as if it had never been there.
4
These are
waterlogged
basins, as they are known to science-thesaturated valleys.
5
Manchester United's visit to Liverpool was postponed due to a
waterlogged
pitch.
1
The cold set the
miry
roads like cement, in ruts and ridges.
2
Right across the lower part of the bog lay a
miry
path.
3
We did not find the land as
miry
as we had supposed.
4
It was Earl who lay flat on the
miry
ground beside him.
5
Bog boy, I surfaced into the
miry
streets of the drowned city.
1
She had stepped in one
mucky
spot and left a sharp impression.
2
Sean spat onto the
mucky
snow at the side of the road.
3
There was no way to suddenly leap up off that
mucky
bottom.
4
She'd stepped with an inspection warrant out on to a
mucky
field.
5
Lots of work in the
mucky
stuff and will be sore tomorrow.
1
Now here is a sack rather dirtier than the rest and
squashy
.
2
Sat there subdued in the lounge on the black,
squashy
leather sofa.
3
Three great reasons why we love our
squashy
orange friend .
4
Toward this the two little workwomen slopped along on
squashy
feet.
5
Compared with this Hilaris, my client Camillus Verus was just a
squashy
plum.
1
Weston, blinking about him, discovered in the
quaggy
mould two foot-prints half filled with water.
2
The
quaggy
ground between the camp and the stream would be an excellent defence against sudden attack.
3
I cautiously approached its
quaggy
edges, when I was shocked by what appeared to be a sudden vision!
4
She listened to the sermon as from a warm nest safely raised above the
quaggy
ground of personal feeling.
5
The trail was narrow just there, and wound through a
quaggy
belt where tall wild cabbage grew out of black depths of mire.
1
He had fallen into this love as one falls into a
sloughy
hole.
2
Cavity
sloughy
throughout and cæcum covered with dull grey lymph.
3
The Swedish Reform Church was in a
sloughy
,
weedy district, near a group of factories.
1
The horse bounded forwards too quickly to sink in the
boggy
ground.
2
Suitability: Outing mainly follows tracks but includes some
boggy
and unstable terrain.
3
Here on the
boggy
floodplain of the Fleet it was really something.
4
He splashed through the
boggy
land, paying no attention to his footsteps.
5
Beyond the moat, the
boggy
ploughed fields stretch to the leaden sky.
6
There were six tents scattered around a
boggy
depression in the ground.
7
I expect it'll be
boggy
,
an' I hope the snow melts soon.
8
It had stopped raining outside and the ground was wet and
boggy
.
9
They have a
boggy
stink, like frogs and trees and scummy water.
10
Level: A long, hard walk crossing exposed mountainside with rough and
boggy
ground.
11
This plain was about three miles wide and
boggy
in places.
12
The ground was wet and
boggy
for some distance on the other side.
13
The road became muddy and
boggy
beyond description, and the rain kept falling.
14
The soil began to be marshy and
boggy
,
and less favorable to progress.
15
Something glittered on the
boggy
surface, five feet to his left.
16
Started at 9 a.m. on a south-south-east course to round the
boggy
country.
boggy
boggy ground
very boggy
boggy land
boggy place
so boggy