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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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After its seemingly benign opening, the movie captures the appalling conditions under which the inmates are kept, with unblinking scenes of bullying, force feeding, strip searches and squalor.—
Chloe Veltman,
NPR,
16 Feb. 2026
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Many came from grinding poverty and squalor.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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While some of Griffin’s jokes may be a product of their time, My Life on the D-List is, all the same, a fascinating snapshot of early aughts celebrity culture in all its chaotic messiness.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Feb. 2026
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Mundruczó is more alert to the messiness than the emergence from it.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Feb. 2026
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He has been criticised over sloppiness in previous games but was solid at the back and impressive with his passing to break Valencia’s lines.—
Mario Cortegana,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Rather, most everyone on coach Dennis Gates’ active roster for the game had a hand in the sloppiness.—
The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
7 Feb. 2026
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These conspicuous little signs of untidiness take mere seconds to clean up and can be the secret to a home that somehow always looks pristine, even if just at first glance.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
13 Feb. 2026
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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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“Muddiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/muddiness. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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