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Secaucus, at the heart of a vast trash-filled marsh known, euphemistically, as the Meadows, is bounded by the ever dirty Hackensack River and two sloughy creeks.

From Time Magazine Archive

In those days of filthy streets, and founderous sloughy roads, the great went ever on horseback, if it were but to a house two doors distant.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

Cavity sloughy throughout and cæcum covered with dull grey lymph.

From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry

At last, out of the dreary waste, at the end of the interminable ill-paved sloughy road, the long line of the grey tumble-down walls rises gloomily. 

From Rome in 1860 by Dicey, Edward

Usually, however, the wound is inflamed and suppurating, with ragged and sloughy edges.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis