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muddled

[ muhd-ld ]

adjective

  1. mixed up, confused, or disordered:

    The rejection is based on faulty underlying assumptions and muddled thinking.

  2. muddy, clouded, or obscured; murky:

    After a long winter season, your pool is most likely a tub of muddled water with foliage and twigs floating about.

  3. (of an ingredient) mixed, crushed, or mashed into a drink, especially with a muddler:

    The freshly muddled kiwi adds an unexpected flavor to this handmade cocktail.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of muddle.

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  • un·mud·dled adjective

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Example Sentences

Her own muddled feelings of confusion, shame, and fear are what make the essay great and what make the essay her story.

Since certification distinctions can be a bit muddled, some take this extra step.

It all makes for a very cool bar, sure, but as a speakeasy, it feels a little muddled.

This obviously closed off some important avenues of inquiry, but I guess we muddled through.

The black, starless sky creeps over the muddled sunset that stains the waves purple before melting away.

He used to tell me so many that they quite muddled my head and even now I can't tell the tail of one from the head of the other.

"The story, as it has been handed on to Branderby, is pretty badly muddled," the editor went on.

The rations were calculated to last for another three days, but their distribution had been muddled.

He was a coward at heart, and too much liquor had somewhat muddled his brain.

It may just possibly be found, without certificate, however, in those muddled caverns where the excluded intermingle.

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