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Muddiest

Muddy \Mud"dy\, a. [Compar. Muddier; superl. Muddiest.]

  1. Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.

  2. Turbid with mud; as, muddy water.

  3. Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure.

    This muddy vesture of decay.
    --Shak.

  4. Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague.

    Cold hearts and muddy understandings.
    --Burke.

    Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled.
    --Shak.

  5. Not clear or bright.
    --Swift.

Wiktionary
muddiest

a. (en-superlative of: muddy)

WordNet
muddy
  1. adj. (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, quaggy, sloughy, swampy]

  2. dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable" [syn: mucky]

  3. (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" [syn: dirty, dingy, muddied]

  4. (of especially liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters" [syn: cloudy, mirky, murky, turbid]

  5. [also: muddied, muddiest, muddier]

muddy
  1. v. dirty with mud [syn: muddy up]

  2. cause to become muddy; "These data would have muddied the prediction"

  3. make turbid; "muddy the water"

  4. [also: muddied, muddiest, muddier]

muddiest

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Usage examples of "muddiest".

Wherever they went, children and goodwives melted away into the woods, leaving toys discarded and pots unwatched, whilst the farmers of the Starn were always in the farthest, muddiest back hollows of their fields, too hard at work to even look up when a plate-armored shadow fell across them.

She kept her eyes on the ground ahead, trying to measure its firmness and avoid the muddiest of spots, as she concentrated on the motion of her lower half.

Graeco-Roman thought to explain the universe was Neoplatonism--the muddiest of the muddy--an attempt to apologise for, and organise into a system, all the nature-dreading superstitions of the Roman world.

The more rugged vehicles pulled on in to the muddiest sections, and the people inside would scatter to the bulldozers and backhoes that had been left outside overnight.

One of them, the muddiest of the lot, was laughing over something with his brothers.

He throws off the cloak and discloses himself to be in the shabbiest and muddiest attire.

The raw afternoon is rawest, and the dense fog is densest, and the muddy streets are muddiest near that leaden-headed old obstruction, appropriate ornament for the threshold of a leaden-headed old corporation, Temple Bar.

And with great care and utmost precision, he pitched the insolent brat right into the biggest, muddiest patch of slush that he thought he could reach.

Elf-child was playing by himself down in the muddiest part of the streambed, and just like any other child, mud had gotten all over his skin and his clothes.

There are people who love truth for its own sake and are ready, like the founders of the Society for Psychical Research, to seek it at the bottom of even the muddiest, smelliest wells.

The foliage was ever-changing colors, shifting swiftly from the palest spring green through to the darkest, muddiest forest black.

Neudorf is the flattest and muddiest, lying towards the Rhine, and up to a century ago tended to disappear under the Rhine each time the Alpine snows melted.

So, it only seemed fair that he take the muddiest route through the yard to the stable.

Moistening a rag in an apparently clean puddle, she dabbed at the muddiest of her matted fur.

Maggie was trotting with her own fishing-rod in one hand and a handle of the basket in the other, stepping always, by a peculiar gift, in the muddiest places, and looking darkly radiant from under her beaver bonnet because Tom was good to her.