mucked up

past tense of muck up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for mucked up
Verb
  • Onana then fumbled a low cross from the right by Yasin Ayari, with the ball falling to the feet of Georginio Rutter.
    Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Last season, Daniels fumbled the ball twice in the last five minutes.
    Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In a world of near-constant conference realignment and the transfer portal, the annual Red River Rivalry game at the State Fair of Texas is one of the few things the sport hasn’t screwed up.
    Jim Barnes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Oct. 2025
  • How do things get so screwed up?
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The emotions as referee Thomas Bramall blew the final whistle, confirming Wrexham’s first defeat in five Championship games, provided a stark contrast.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • But Holmes blew through his cash, spending much of it on expensive cars.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Back in January, Preston remembered filming My Best Friend’s Wedding — and how an iconic scene ruined crab and lobster for her.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • All the beautiful lines have been ruined.
    Sean Evans, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Another legend explains how in the distant past, the nefarious Lake Nyos was formed from the decomposing body of a Kom chief whose people had been tricked and murdered by the Bamessi tribe.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • State social studies standards for years have included discussion of how white Tulsans murdered as many as 300 Black people.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This is the uniform in which DesRochers greets me at the nucleus of her sprawling entrepreneurial pursuits that are dubbed The Gratitude Collective, her brick home sitting high atop a hill in Avondale.
    Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Tsung-Dao Lee Institute conducted the sea trial of a device dubbed the Subsea Precision Instrument Deployer with Elastic Releasing (Spider).
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Mucked up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mucked%20up. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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