Example Sentences

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“And it doesn’t happen in the low register. It happens up high. You’re in the stratosphere. You can transcend any muckiness of the world.”

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2017

Combine dining and verse, as has been done in a new anthology called “The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food & Drink,” and you have the potential for a perfect storm of muckiness.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2012

There was no amount of muckiness Miss Pillby would not have endured in order to injure a person she disliked.

From The Golden Calf by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)