The water's muddiness made it undrinkable. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : muddy colors. ,muddy coffee. From Dictionary.com.
A: That muddiness is part of the article he’s writing — nobody had any idea what these things were. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
I gave my "test song" a try on Will's iPod Mini and the result was the same exact "muddiness" as he described it. From Wordnik.com. [Musings of a Drunken Monk: That wasn't so bad ...] Reference
How do you deal with pond problems such as muddiness or excessive plant growth?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
His colors were vibrant and alive and totally devoid of muddiness. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Rosenthal…passionate painterly style on exhibit at Lurie Gallery. Beverly Hills… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture] Reference
I did not wish to drink the wine, for it had in it a certain muddiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Esperanto Teacher A Simple Course for Non-Grammarians] Reference
Promising an evening of extreme muddiness or, worse, of no parking lot carnival. From Wordnik.com. [things hated: getting up too early on Saturday morning] Reference
Which has caused a bit of muddiness to be sticking to the soles of my tennis shoes. From Wordnik.com. [boiling noodles] Reference
Perhaps his main fault as a novelist, however, has been a certain muddiness in the narration. From Wordnik.com. [Le Carré's mission keeps changing, but not his mastery] Reference
Within this week we have been studying a stream, which has alternated in its clearness and muddiness. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
I know that there is probably some muddiness in my heroine's emotional arc, but I'm too close to it to see it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-02-01] Reference
Instead, I'd witnessed an endorsement of the gloriously complex, difficult muddiness of what it means to be a parent. From Wordnik.com. [Meredith O'Brien: Life Imitates Art: Juno & Jamie Lynn Spears] Reference
Quality: Lots of pixel “ghosting” blocky pieces left behind when scene jumps, general muddiness to multi-colour scenes. From Wordnik.com. [Video MobileConverter Formats Flicks For Small Screen | Lifehacker Australia] Reference
I've learned the murky depths of perception; I've learned the muddiness of emotion; I've learned not to underestimate myself. From Wordnik.com. [absentia Diary Entry] Reference
The colors of things in the workroom were all wrong, their tones thrown down a pitch to a kind of audible rumbling muddiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Animal] Reference
They were almost in despair before at last they came to a little muddiness and a tiny trickle of water through softer and better grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Horse and His Boy]
The ontological and cosmological proofs are for those who wish to cleanse themselves of the "muddiness and accidentality" of the world. From Wordnik.com. [William James, part 7: Agnosticism and the will to believe] Reference
I suspect those books had editorial participation because they are not burdened by the muddiness and wandering I see in her later works. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Keyboard grunge, Anne Rice, and the light of other eyes] Reference
What were the margins of Bush's victories (as reported by the news, let's let skip the muddiness of Ohio and Florida and keep it simple)?. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Gyllenhaal: The Day After 9/11] Reference
The Clash of the Titans 'double heads and muddiness. From Wordnik.com. [Cinematical] Reference
Air has entered the flasks, and the observed muddiness is the result. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
In that pure blue all the weight of its muddiness sinks and disappears. From Wordnik.com. [The Home and the World] Reference
Blithedale, no inclemency of sky or muddiness of earth had ever impeded her daily walks. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
Contrasted with the Ohio, the Mississippi had nothing to show but breadth and muddiness. From Wordnik.com. [A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA)] Reference
As we drew near I saw that they combined an extreme muddiness with an unusual elasticity. From Wordnik.com. [War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war] Reference
Her complexion was losing its muddiness and spottiness; her step had become light and brisk. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Women] Reference
Based on the clean tone, I thought I was going to have some muddiness issues when I started cranking things up. From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
She had acquired the London muddiness of complexion quickly, poor child, in the semi-subterranean life she led. From Wordnik.com. [The Message] Reference
Mrs. Eddy's success in literature arose from the extreme muddiness of her thinking and her opacity in expression. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers] Reference
The horse that had been loaned to them was a speedy animal and they made good time despite the muddiness of the road. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover Boys on the Farm or Last Days at Putnam Hall] Reference
Conversations are loud and clear from Droid 2, but listeners on the other end reported a bit of muddiness coming through. From Wordnik.com. [Digital Trends] Reference
The horse played at drinking, pretending a thirst which it did not feel, and began to paw the clear water into muddiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Cut] Reference
I would compound for a little pain instead of this heartless muddiness of mind which renders me incapable of anything rational. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
The river falls slowly, and, owing either to the muddiness of its water, or the extreme heat of the weather, the men perspire profusely. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.] Reference
A certain Gothic greyness and flatness and muddiness through which the Cambridge spirit struggles to its destiny, he concealed from her. From Wordnik.com. [The Research Magnificent] Reference
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