sloughy
- a word derived from slough.
Example Sentences
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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
Usually, however, the wound is inflamed and suppurating, with ragged and sloughy edges.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
He had fallen into this love as one falls into a sloughy hole.
From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 by Maupassant, Guy de
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.
