muck

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

A woman, in a rhinestone shirt, told me that she wanted to convene her fellow cyclists to whizz by the gulleys and alleyways around Tucson, searching for clues in the muck.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026

The streets of America did not need to be paved with gold; it would suffice to be less mired in muck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

I failed to realize that intelligence tests effectively muck with both your past and your future, clarifying a lifetime of bad choices and setting you up for the inevitability of future failure.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

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

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

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

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2018

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

From Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling

He said he believed that Shakespeare purists would love the adaption, adding that "we haven't mucked around" with the original text, but had added "all these different flavours and textures".

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 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

I think he royally mucked up this whole process, starting with his ill-considered promise back in March 2021 to appoint a Black woman to replace Feinstein.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

Matty Beniers and Jaden Schwartz mucked the puck out of a cluster of bodies along the boards and Beniers tapped it to Dunn, who extended his league-best, personal-best and franchise-best point streak to 12 games.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 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

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

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

Tommy, who had been mucking about on the wall with Rodney, suddenly jumped down and went still.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro