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Muddiness

noun
1.
The wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water.  Synonyms: sloppiness, wateriness.  "The water's muddiness made it undrinkable" , "The sloppiness of a rainy November day"
2.
A mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior.  Synonyms: confusedness, confusion, disarray, mental confusion.
3.
The quality of being cloudy.  Synonyms: cloudiness, murkiness.






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"Muddiness" Quotes from Famous Books



... fishermen say that it is a rare thing for any one to be carried off by these reptiles. When crocodiles can easily obtain abundance of fish—their natural food—they seldom attack men; but when unable to see to catch their prey, from the muddiness of the water in floods, they ...
— A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries • David Livingstone

... leaves or sticks, or a morsel of soil broken from the side, dams back the water for a considerable distance, occasioning a deposit of soil along the whole reach, greater in proportion to the quantity and the muddiness of the water detained. All this shows the paramount importance of perfect evenness in the bed on which the tiles are laid. The worst laid tile is the measure of the goodness and permanence of the whole drain, just as the weakest link ...
— Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health • George E. Waring

... till sin interposed and eclipsed it, and from the light of God's countenance did the sweet heat and warmness of holiness and uprightness in the affections proceed, so that there was nothing but purity and cleanness in the soul, no darkness of ignorance, no muddiness of carnal affections, but the soul pure and transparent, to receive the refreshing and enlightening rays of God's glorious countenance. And this was the very face and beauty of the soul. It is that only that is the beauty and excellency ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning

... reminded him of Baldwin's teaching. He bent forward his head and wiped the glass with his night-cap, but without much advantage, for the dimness was caused by the muddiness ...
— Under the Waves - Diving in Deep Waters • R M Ballantyne



Words linked to "Muddiness" :   opacity, turbidity, perplexity, steaminess, turbidness, fog, half-cock, disorientation, befuddlement, bewilderment, mental confusion, puzzlement, cognitive state, cloudiness, muddy, jamais vu, bafflement, vaporousness, haze, confusion, wetness, opaqueness, daze, obfuscation, haziness, sloppiness, mistiness, bemusement, mystification, confusedness, vapourousness, wateriness, state of mind, distraction



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