muddy

Ms. Friar was light on the details last week, and after the Journal event she backtracked, saying her use of the word “backstop” had “muddied” things.

Moments later, muddy water surged up the stairs after him.

By muddying the waters of justice, he has begun to normalize an indifference to impropriety that looks, from a distance, a lot like graft.

Among a dozen, we meet two pilgrims from the States, boots barely muddied, walking sticks barely warmed.

If nature had been left to take its course, most of The Netherlands would be a muddy swamp, not the European Union's fifth-largest economy.