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Secaucus, at the heart of a vast trash-filled marsh known, euphemistically, as the Meadows, is bounded by the ever dirty Hackensack River and two sloughy creeks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Treatment.—The only satisfactory treatment is thorough removal under an anæsthetic of all the sloughy tissue, with the surrounding zone in which the organisms are active.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis

In those days of filthy streets, and founderous sloughy roads, the great went ever on horseback, if it were but to a house two doors distant.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

When they reached him he led them to a wide meadow-like stretch of sloughy ground, and showed them the fresh hoof-prints of many ponies.

From White Otter by Gregor, Elmer Russell

At last, out of the dreary waste, at the end of the interminable ill-paved sloughy road, the long line of the grey tumble-down walls rises gloomily. 

From Rome in 1860 by Dicey, Edward