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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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But does the vitality mask the squalor or the squalor the vitality?—
SPIN Team,
SPIN,
20 Apr. 2026
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And while these tenants paid their rent month after month, some of them up to $900 a month to live in squalor.—
Nikki DeMentri,
CBS News,
20 Apr. 2026
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This realization initiated a generations-long mission in humanity to, like plants, disintermediate ourselves from the messiness and immorality of food chains, farming, and carnivorism.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
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Just like trying to drive around while spreading ketchup on a carton of French fries, the brand’s origin story is not without its messiness.—
Amanda Hancock,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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Starting early in the second period, however, the Flyers found themselves on one odd-man rush after another, partially because of their aggressive approach and partially because the Penguins’ trademark sloppiness started to bite them.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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Was this a signal or just sloppiness?—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 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 1 May. 2026.
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