Definition of murky
murkier
;murkiest
1 : characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke the murky bottom of the lake
2 : characterized by thickness and heaviness of air : foggy, misty rain poured down from murky skies — Newsweek
3 : darkly vague or obscure murky official rhetoric He offered a murky explanation.
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Examples of murky in a Sentence
She peered into one of the church's murky chapels.
a politician with a murky past
Recent Examples of murky from the Web
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This isn't pegging the players' best-case or worst-case scenario, but rather somewhere in the murky middle.
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The details of how any change in the federal health law rules would play out in various states and in each health policy are still murky; the GOP Senate bill is still in draft form, and a lot will be left up to the state.
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In past small studies, findings have been murky on whether health insurance significantly alters major health events—such as cardiac arrests.
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Conte was the perfect antagonist for the BALCO narrative, a man with a murky past and a villain’s name straight from a spy movie.
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Details surrounding the incident, which allegedly took place in a pool between Jackson and Olympios on June 4, are murky.
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The law concerning foreign transfers of money is also murky.
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If grunge prized murky guitar textures, pounding drums and lumbering bass lines with attitudinally angsty shouting, other bands were making slightly more sensitive music.
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Hong Kong proposes overhaul of troubled second exchange Similar markets in London, New York dogged by poor returns Hong Kong’s exchange operator is putting a spotlight on one of the murkiest corners of global finance: small-company stock venues.
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First Known Use of murky
14th century
MURKY Defined for English Language Learners
murky
playDefinition of murky for English Language Learners
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: very dark or foggy
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of a liquid : not clear
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: not clearly expressed or understood
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