mucky
Americanadjective
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of or like muck.
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filthy, dirty, or slimy.
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British Informal.
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obscene.
a mucky story.
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nasty; mean or contemptible.
a mucky trick.
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(of weather) oppressively humid.
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adjective
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dirty
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of or like muck
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Origin of mucky
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Soon after completion of the work, the coating began to peel off and algae turned the pool's water a mucky green -- setbacks the president has blamed on vandals, without providing evidence.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Mr. Paré-Poupart is in his element when describing the men with whom he’s worked, misfits all yet high-functioning pros in the mucky métier they’ve chosen for themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The trees won’t take in wetlands, in mucky soils.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
I waded a long way out, til the bottom grew mucky and seaweed tickled my legs, then submerged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
I pushed off the mucky bottom, hand sinking deep into silky mud, and came back to standing.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
Just don’t bring the muckier parts of it inside to build up and contaminate our homes.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2022
After growing up in the gloomy North and slogging through Westeros’s muckier precincts with the Hound, she arrived in summery Braavos like a little bloodthirsty Mary Richards, thrilling in her newfound freedom.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2015
I want to see the muckiest film advertised.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 16, 2013
The 589 is lightweight, which means it steers easily and doesn't put as much strain on your quad's drivetrain, and it really eats up the muckiest of mud.
From Time Magazine Archive
This six-ply tire has a unique tread design that's made to last and last while chomping away at the muckiest of mud.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her ladyship had to come, of course, at the very worst time of year, when the mud was at its muckiest and the prairie was at its worst.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
Come silence, like a fainting fit—the thickest, muckiest silence I ever heard.
From Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters by Phillips, Henry Wallace
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