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Recent Examples of muddiness
The muddiness of Manchester gives way to a brighter color palette later in the film as Lee and her followers travel to America in pursuit of religious freedom.
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Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 25 Dec. 2025
Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 25 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for muddiness
Noun
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There, they were crammed in squalor before being shot to death and buried in mass graves in the Liaudiskiai forest with the help of local Nazi collaborators.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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For Stroheim, the palaces and playgrounds of the rich are elaborate concealments of the drudgery and the squalor underlying comforts and luxuries—and even the bare necessities of everyday people.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Though the rope suggests tidy metaphors of unity, coherence, and formal integrity, a playful but insistent messiness effloresces in Simms’s entanglements, throwing any seeming wholeness into question.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
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The trio has great comedic chemistry, with Marissa constantly exchanging witty barbs with Jamie and barking orders at Harper, while the latter two bond over their mutual messiness.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
26 Jan. 2026
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Often this has been from a position of two goals up, but when the lead is only one, if sloppiness is punished then the consequences are more dire.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
17 Jan. 2026
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But after entering the second quarter with a 26-8 lead, UConn’s offense abruptly devolved into sloppiness.—
Emily Adams,
Hartford Courant,
16 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Bills are being paid late, the practice is a frightening level of untidiness, there’s a miniature horse in the study, and Siegfried is passed out on the sofa with some loose woman under a trench coat beside him.—
Alice Burton,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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Despite no Premier League goals and a general untidiness to his work, his manager sees his potential.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
12 Dec. 2025
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“Muddiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muddiness. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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