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clouded

[ klou-did ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

Origin of clouded¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; cloud + -ed ²

Apparently, he thinks people who love someone with Down syndrome simply must be clouded by sentiment, and unable to see reason.

I knew my story would be clouded in secrecy, overflowing with spies and agents wanting the man at the end of that deal.

The most fundamental terms in that definition—enemy and success—are clouded by uncertainty in Iraq.

My wife, whose memory is never clouded by what should have been, says otherwise.

The walls are lined with clouded glass and throw a touch of art deco into the design mix.

Aristide again sought the message of the stars; but the sky was clouded over, and soon a fine rain began to fall.

"I believe that is what they call it," Gordon answered, gazing back at her with his densely clouded blue eyes.

It was this double attitude which, from the moment Murat became King, clouded the relations between him and Napoleon.

Doubt, suspicion, anger clouded vision; pain routed the impersonal conception.

So the clouded day broke sullenly, with gusts of warm rain and red gleams of a sun striving to disperse the mists.

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