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swampy

[swom-pee] / ˈswɒm pi /
ADJECTIVE
boggy
Synonyms


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So let’s dive, Scrooge McDuck–style, into the swampy details.

From Slate Jul. 1, 2026

Mbappé went on his scoring binge first, in the swampy Meadowlands.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 17, 2026

The sun is setting over Ilubirin, a half-finished housing estate being constructed on sand-filled land reclaimed from the swampy Lagos lagoon.

From Barron's Dec. 22, 2025

According to these organizations, the answer to reversing toxic algae lies in Ohio’s swampy past.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2025

But the only remnant left was the burning ache in my throat and the stench of spent gunpowder and swampy water muddling in my nostrils.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

“Phytophthora thrives on these humid, moist, kind of swampier sites. Unfortunately, that is the kind of problem that's kind of creeping up into our region as things start to warm up.”

From Salon Dec. 18, 2023

But the opposite is true, so he depends on a foil who flatters him, a fork in the road that he can portray as rockier and swampier.

From Seattle Times Jul. 26, 2017

In the early 1970s, Dr. Brisbin was employed checking out the wildlife on the periphery of the plant and often came upon these wild dogs in the swampier parts of his domain.

From New York Times Jul. 15, 2013

Kyushu would have seemed a paradise to Korean rice farmers, because it is warmer and swampier than Korea and hence a better place to grow rice.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

As the forest became wetter and swampier, she had to avoid stepping into still, black pools that looked like shadows.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

In the swampiest of swamps, “strategic communications” obviously pays.

From Washington Post Feb. 11, 2020

This war had led us from the comparative civilisation of German plantations to the wildest, swampiest region of Equatorial Africa.

From Sketches of the East Africa Campaign by Robert Valentine Dolbey




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