murkier; murkiest
1
: characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke
the murky bottom of the lake
2
3
: darkly vague or obscure
murky official rhetoric
He offered a murky explanation.
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Examples of murky in a Sentence
She peered into one of the church's murky chapels.
a politician with a murky past
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Without aging being defined as an illness, longevity treatments face a murky regulatory path with the FDA.
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But amid a steady drumbeat of missteps and scandal, the AfD’s future seems murkier.
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The documents offer an unprecedented — though still murky — look under the hood of one of the most consequential systems shaping the web.
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Ballot access could be more complicated The murkier part of the qualification rules lies in the requirement that candidates must also be on enough ballots to theoretically win 270 electoral votes, the minimum necessary to capture a majority in the Electoral College.
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Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
But amid a steady drumbeat of missteps and scandal, the AfD’s future seems murkier.
—Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 3 June 2024
The documents offer an unprecedented — though still murky — look under the hood of one of the most consequential systems shaping the web.
—Mia Sato, The Verge, 29 May 2024
Ballot access could be more complicated The murkier part of the qualification rules lies in the requirement that candidates must also be on enough ballots to theoretically win 270 electoral votes, the minimum necessary to capture a majority in the Electoral College.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 22 May 2024
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“Murky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/murky. Accessed 8 Jun. 2024.
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murky
adjective
murkier; murkiest
1
: very dark or gloomy
2
3
: difficult to understand
a murky reply designed to confuse
murkiness
noun
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