muck

They don’t want me to go back and muck up their experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

That’s a lovely way to describe it, and “Clayface” does have decent ideas for those game to sift through the muck.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Here’s another running bit that would be so easy to muck up or exploit.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

But as Cara Giaimo writes for Slate, algae enthusiasts are finding tremendous joy in all the muck.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

I dig my feet into the muck at the bottom to keep from being swept away.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

The film "mucks up Orwell", according to the Wall Street Journal,, external who surmised: "As comedy, the movie is feeble, and as allegory for the socioeconomically literate it is heavy-handed."

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

Whether one mucks in for the full ride or just appreciates the concept, duration is part of the art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024

It’s almost as if they are on security detail, making sure nobody mucks up their treasured characters and stories, which is perfectly understandable.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018

Even though tennis industry officials and country club muckety mucks wrote dress codes that outlawed shorts, many women refused to adhere to the rules and continued showing up to play wearing them.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2018

Our Colonel's white an' twitterly—'e gets no sleep nor food, But mucks about in 'orspital where nothing does no good.

From Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling

As she tells it, she was depicting a fantasy, and people didn’t need their fantasies mucked up by seeing the whole truth.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

These shows are much more vital when the cast stops fighting or toiling in the same drama they’ve been mucked in for years.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025

Beyond the $500 buy-in, entry into the stacked poker den has become its own kind of currency, where talk of bad beats and mucked hands replaces the usual industry chatter.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2024

Trainer has organised a minibus for 8am to take stable staff to Aintree on Saturday after they have mucked out and ridden horses at his stables near Cardiff.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2023

We mucked through the woods and across the field.

From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn

Proponents like Liverpool owner John Henry wound up apologizing for mucking with the product.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

"There are consequences, we are not mucking around now," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025

As Ms Hall was busy draining off the pasta in the sink, her partner of 27 years and their daughter were "mucking about by the back door".

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025

“People should prepare for really the worst-case scenario,” Kittell said, where heavy rainfall could send mud and debris sliding off hillsides, mucking up roads and possibly colliding into homes and other structures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025

Then Simon stood up and Ralph looked at him in astonishment "You! What were you mucking about in the dark for?"

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding