Synonyms for muddiness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : muhd-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmʌd i

Top 10 synonyms for muddiness

Other synonyms for the word muddiness

Définition of muddiness

Origin : late 13c., from mud + -y (2). Big Muddy in reference to the Missouri or Mississippi rivers is first recorded 1825.

Example sentences :

Within this week we have been studying a stream, which has alternated in its clearness and muddiness.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. » by Various

She had acquired the London muddiness of complexion quickly, poor child, in the semi-subterranean life she led.
Extract from : « The Message » by Alec John Dawson

The horse played at drinking, pretending a thirst which it did not feel, and began to paw the clear water into muddiness.
Extract from : « The Short Cut » by Jackson Gregory

Memphis was then, and is now, famous for the beauty of her women, and the muddiness of her streets.
Extract from : « The White Rose of Memphis » by William C. Falkner

The reverse is muddiness, which is sure to come from too much fussing and overworking of wet paint.
Extract from : « The Painter in Oil » by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst

In the following names the sense may be sometimes then that of muddiness, though in general, as I take it, that of sluggishness.
Extract from : « The River-Names of Europe » by Robert Ferguson

The horse that had been loaned to them was a speedy animal and they made good time despite the muddiness of the road.
Extract from : « The Rover Boys on the Farm » by Arthur M. Winfield (AKA Edward Stratemeyer)

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