muck

You don’t want to muck bait it and drag it out for the sake of dragging it out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

A school that can’t keep itself out of football controversy is back in the muck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

A resident in the area, who asked not to be named, told the BBC a muck spreader, which are normally used to distribute farmyard manure, had been used to spread medical waste.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 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

When it gets grittier, the handheld camera comes in, as Pine mucks about in the mud and literally goes underground to find the truth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2022

To the public, Zucker is the one- or two-season guest star who joins the workplace drama ensemble and mucks up the joint.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2022

That makes teams more inclined to take penalties, which further mucks up games.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2018

Don't you worry," he said; "I know all the high mucks here.

From Tom Slade's Double Dare by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen

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

Even if significant debris flows don’t happen, roads could be mucked with mud, “and there will probably be a lot of road closures in and around those burn scars,” Kittell said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025

“The assumption is that the new tissue, whatever you put in there, is going to heal slower because the environment has already been kind of mucked around with,” Altchek said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

There's a sense he has mucked up and defending him is difficult.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2023

I felt achy as I weeded my fields and carried water to the garden and fed the chickens, and mucked out Plug’s stall.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

The wild card in the movie, and one whose fierce devotion to mucking things up isn’t well explained, is Barry Keoghan as a motorbike-riding blond agent of chaos, Ormon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025

Her parents had said they were all "mucking about" and throwing grapes at each other in the kitchen while Ms Hall was making spaghetti Bolognese.

From BBC ● Feb. 10, 2025

Burns said she always liked matching taller players against shorter players and the inverse, mucking up the opposing team’s vision on the court to force turnovers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2025

“I need you in Oneida, not mucking with scrap!”

From "Educated" by Tara Westover