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roily

adjective

Definition of roily

as in silty

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as in unsettled

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Adjective

Soil Plants thrive in loamy, well-draining soil but tolerate a range of soil types, including clay.

— Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 July 2026
Fill the container with high-quality, loamy, well-draining potting mix.

— SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 18 June 2026

Definition of loamy

Adjective

Over the next several days, plan on more fall weather ahead of a colder, more unsettled end to the coming workweek.

— CBS News, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026
His eligibility case remains unsettled, as Sane signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Utah Jazz in 2024 but never appeared in an NBA game.

— Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of unsettled

Adjective

But the order has been given by Wiesler’s slimy, careerist boss Grubitz (Paul Higgins) at the behest of Hempf (Andrew Woodall), a party minister.

— Demetrios Matheou, HollywoodReporter, 2 Nov. 2026
Even the stories that are printed with such intent have a shelf life that demands the pages to be turned into living stories and not wrapped around a slimy fish.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of slimy

Adjective

Snap confidentially settled a case claiming that its technology caused severe psychological distress to two teenage users.

— Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2026
Mayor Kevin McCarty outlined plans to build more tiny homes, bring a Major League Baseball team to Sacramento and lobby for changes to the state court system that would connect people with severe mental illness to potentially lifesaving services.

— Jennah Pendleton, Sacbee.com, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of severe

Adjective

This version, though, is brutal, his voice acerbic and his guitar serrated.

— Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork, 7 Nov. 2026
And through eight games this season, those two words have defined the majority of the third-year wing’s experience on the court for the Chicago Bulls, who are 1-7 after a brutal trio of road losses in the last week.

— Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of brutal

Adjective

This pizza is comes together fast with premade dough and is loaded with oozy red sauce, two different cheeses, spinach, and Italian sausage.

— Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 21 Oct. 2026
There’s something irresistibly oozy about Tommy Lee Jones as Frog, eliding the spaces between his words so that every sentence becomes a song.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of oozy

Adjective

Sparks fly between Jess and Adam—and the unquiet spirits of Green-Wood rise from their century-long slumber.

— CBS News, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026
These attempts to keep down the unquiet dead were, besides being desecrations, exercises in a lot of heavy and often forbidden labor done on decaying bodies.

— Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026

Definition of unquiet

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