Adjective : muddy colors. ,muddy coffee. From Dictionary.com.
You are thinking muddily-conduct ordinarily inexcusable!. From Wordnik.com. [Gray Lensman]
Kit, knowing that he was thinking muddily and foolishly, paused and pulled himself together. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Lens]
Nonetheless, the crew has been gainfully (and muddily) employed in useful tasks all week long. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Mt. Vernon - Dig Diaries: Report 6] Reference
But Merdle, as usual, oozed sluggishly and muddily about his drawing – room, saying never a word. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
It seemed to be downstream, so they went to Swiftmud, who was muddily snoozing on the dark underworld river. From Wordnik.com. [Harpy Thyme]
But it does, in real life, muddily, horribly, with more painful effect than any fiction, and this is what we saw last week. From Wordnik.com. [Derrick Bird: dangerous thoughts about the trigger inside that will forever haunt Cumbria] Reference
He gave her no clue as to his own muddily understood searching, except to tell her that he had his own bird, up in his room at home. From Wordnik.com. [Old Egg] Reference
He found the body of the old woman: or at least he saw her foot, in its flat black slipper, muddily protruding from a mud-heap of debris. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin and the Gypsy] Reference
David Lan's production has a few indistinct talkers and muddily plotted moments: it's quite often hard to know what's actually happening. From Wordnik.com. [After the Dance; Love Story; Joe Turner's Come and Gone] Reference
Here you find the gelatinous humanoid mess, muddily rising from a grave in the bottom of a swamp and lurching toward land caked in leaves and vines. From Wordnik.com. [Scott Kenemore: The Zen Of Zombie: Play To Your Strengths] Reference
I looked away from him, attempting to suppress my disgust, fixing my eyes on a seascape so muddily rendered it had managed to make Carmel look ugly. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Edge] Reference
The landing was difficult; Viola ran the sloping prow of the LCP gingerly up over the sea marsh and the young men scrambled muddily on board over the bow. From Wordnik.com. [The Breaking Wave]
Down the street I pounded, noticing only that it was mercifully wide and short on shadows, and had smooth cinder pavements that scuffed muddily under my feet. From Wordnik.com. [Chase the Morning]
I'm not quite sure how the children got fed, or the dogs walked, but I know that at one point my husband appeared with a gin and tonic, which I drank gratefully, and muddily. From Wordnik.com. [Danielle Crittenden: Help, My Botanical Clock Is Ticking!] Reference
Perhaps Rowland has been misled by the illustration in the British Museum catalog, where it is muddily reproduced at a ninth of its actual area (12 x 9 cm instead of 37 x 27 cm). From Wordnik.com. [Michelangelo and the Etruscans] Reference
"Meskada" by Josh Sternberg is a police procedural with nice touches of noir and a feel for blue collar America, but the sound is garbled and the community conflicts muddily drawn. From Wordnik.com. [Erica Abeel: INDIE STALWARTS AND NEW TALENT AT TRIBECA] Reference
That evening they went for a leisurely walk, going as far as the Loire, whose water, after the rains at the beginning of the week, flowed muddily and carried the branches of trees along with it. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Killer]
The water, a little river here, ran swiftly, muddily, black under the desert stars. From Wordnik.com. [The Desert Fiddler] Reference
The men turned to and heaved away the fallen stones under which the water oozed muddily. From Wordnik.com. [Hetty Wesley] Reference
At the corner of the street they waited for Geoffrey, who rode up muddily on his bicycle. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
It was beginning to run muddily through a commonplace country, past squalid polluting towns and villages. From Wordnik.com. [Red Pottage] Reference
September, the water flows in oily curves or splashes muddily against the very thresholds of the cottages. From Wordnik.com. [Priscilla's Spies] Reference
That in itself should not be problem, but it's a rather muddily-mixed track that's not always as clear as it should be. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Times] Reference
This third man was small and perky, his hair muddily gray and in the state tactfully described by barbers as "A little thin on top.". From Wordnik.com. [Alias the Saint]
In the raw December twilight she tramped muddily into Mrs. Richie's firelit parlor, which was fragrant with hyacinths blossoming on every window - sill. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Woman] Reference
Tom was getting to be animated, and when that was the case, his ideas flowed like a torrent after a thunder-shower, or in volumes, and a little muddily. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief] Reference
The next week we find Clifford, of Maine, "muddily bothering his trickster invention" to get over a rule of the House, and "snapping like a mackerel at a red rag" at the suggestion of a way to do so. From Wordnik.com. [John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series] Reference
It turns out (eventually, muddily -- point two against. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
"Earnestly, I gazed, and, presently, seemed to see circular masses, that showed muddily red, within the clouded blackness. From Wordnik.com. [The House on the Borderland: Chapter 22] Reference
“Earnestly, I gazed, and, presently, seemed to see circular masses, that showed muddily red, within the clouded blackness. From Wordnik.com. [The House on the Borderland] Reference
Perhaps I wrote muddily. From Wordnik.com. [Annie, Drop Your Gun!] Reference
Now bubbling muddily, now trickling. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns of Avalon]
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