muddy the waters
Example Sentences
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To muddy the waters further, another of Mark McDonald's panel of experts has said that in fact there was post-mortem evidence of air embolism in the babies.
From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025
A person's actions, however, can often have some plausible ambiguity that bad faith actors can exploit to muddy the waters.
From Salon • Apr. 8, 2025
“The defense is going to muddy the waters on whether that gun was somehow defective and maybe fired on its own or fired with a slight depress of the trigger.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024
All of this tends to muddy the waters a bit around the question of fake license plates, which are hardly defensible on any of these grounds.
From Slate • Apr. 25, 2023
“Rae, let’s not do this. You’re an amazing girl and we’ve got a good thing going, so let’s not muddy the waters, okay?”
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
