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Meanings of muddy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sloppy"
Examples for "sloppy"
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 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.
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.
Usage of muddy in English
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.
6
The muddy hunter could not find one; he searched in every pocket.
7
We crouched in a big trench in muddy water behind the bank.
8
There followed a tedious debate, a muddy flow of gabble and balderdash.
9
Picturesque Crickhowell was left awash with muddy water after Storm Dennis struck.
10
All remained where they were in the middle of the muddy road.
11
Crop growers will be struggling a bit with cultivation in muddy conditions.
12
Trails are muddy here, sometimes indistinct, but they soon become clear again.
13
Wolf bent over and retched up a great muddy sheet of water.
14
However, all that seemed to do was muddy the waters of clarity.
15
TV footage showed large chunks of soil slipping into the muddy water.
16
It was damp, muddy, and desolate; the water looked cold and malignant.
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