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Murkiest

Murky \Murk"y\, a. [Compar. Murkier; superl. Murkiest.] [OE. mirke, merke, AS. myrce, mirce; akin to Icel. myrkr, Dan. & Sw. m["o]rk.]

  1. Dark; gloomy. ``The murkiest den.''
    --Shak.

    A murky deep lowering o'er our heads.
    --Addison.

  2. Obscured by haze or mist; clouded; turbid; as, poor visibility in the murky water.

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murkiest

a. (en-superlativemurky)

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murky

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

  2. so shaded as to be dark or gloomy; "a murky dungeon"; "murky rooms lit by smoke-blackened lamps" [syn: mirky]

  3. [also: murkiest, murkier]

Usage examples of "murkiest".

For a moment I thought I saw, in murkiest silhouette, the outlines of a gondola, with gondolier and passenger, going away from me, but I simply couldn't be sure.

I sat down on the porch steps and made sure my key ring was not hidden somewhere in the murkiest corner of my purse.

Why, I once wrote a good stabbing-mystery set in a village just like this, and even the verger turned out to have the murkiest kind of past!