What's the difference between miry and mucky?

Miry


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The acarajé at this five-square-metre hole-in-the-wall joint at the top of a bar-packed street close to Mackenzie University are served with grace, charm and warm smiles by Fátima and Miri de Castro.
  • (2) ‘owl-light’ (Lancashire) fizmer the whispering sound of wind in reeds or grass (Fenland) grimlins the night hours around midsummer when dusk blends into dawn (Orkney) The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape Read more gruffy ground the surface landscape left behind by lead-mining (Somerset) grumma a mirage caused by mist or haze (Shetland) hob-gob a dangerously choppy sea (Suffolk) muxy of land; sticky, miry, muddy (Exmoor) outshifts the fringes and boundaries of a town (Cambridgeshire) roarie-bummlers fast-moving storm clouds (Scots) snow-bones long thin patches of snow still lying after a thaw, often in dips or stream-cuts (Yorkshire) turn-whol a deep and seething pool where two quick streams meet (Cumbria) zwer the whirring sound made by a covey of partridge taking flight (Exmoor)
  • (3) Glick often led groups of religious Jews to visit the site and had been a key speaker at the conference billed as “Israel Returns to the Temple Mount” with Likud MPs Moshe Feiglin and Miri Regev.
  • (4) The bill's sponsor, Miri Regev, said the committee's approval was "a clear statement by the government that the towns in the Jordan Valley are a strategic and security asset of the state of Israel that must stay in our hands".
  • (5) Greece threatens to veto Britain-EU deal if states close borders to refugees Read more “You feel for them, these people with babies fleeing war,” says Afrodita Kotzai, tears welling as she stands with her husband, Miri, outside their apartment near the square.
  • (6) Anyone could make Cop Out, Jersey Girl, Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
  • (7) He bounced back with 2006's Clerks 2 , but a further knock was just around the corner in the shape of 2008's skewed romcom Zack And Miri Make A Porno , Smith's attempt to capitalise on the bawdy Judd Apatow comedies he saw himself as a part of.
  • (8) My entire family is at risk of being killed if we ever went back to Ghazni [his home town].” Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘You feel for them, these people with babies fleeing war’ – Afrodita Kotzai with husband Miri.
  • (9) "In the midst of Zack And Miri, something just felt kinda off.
  • (10) Glick often led groups of religious Jews to visit the site and had been a key speaker at the conference billed as “Israel Returns to the Temple Mount” with MPs Moshe Feiglin and Miri Regev.

Mucky


Definition:

  • (a.) Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road.
  • (a.) Vile, in a moral sense; sordid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) People around, young people in general can see what engineering is and the fact that it is no longer a mucky, oily, grimy place to work but it is a light, airy, clean environment," he said.
  • (2) In the flesh, though, he's more Bruce Forsyth than Bruce Willis: sweet-eyed, gleaming-teethed, with a keen ear for innuendo and a frankly mucky chuckle.
  • (3) Then, the water had been clear and clean, not mucky as it is now full of floating debris and sometimes choked with weeds.
  • (4) I always hear heartier laughs, the guttural kind and the foghorn ones, mucky-dinnerlady-type laughs.
  • (5) 'I always hear heartier laughs up north, the guttural kind and the foghorn ones, mucky-dinnerlady-type laughs' … Lucy Beaumont.
  • (6) Some of it is even shot in the participants' own kitchens, so there's an awful lot of clutter and mucky sponges you really don't need to see.
  • (7) Let's assume, entirely hypothetically, that someone steals a laptop containing mucky candid photographs of Rodney Bewes and tries to flog them to the tabloids.
  • (8) Who knows where tourism tourism will stand, once this mucky debate is over?)
  • (9) Carol Roe, Dhu’s grandmother, felt the lump as well, and said it was “very mucky, like dried blood”.
  • (10) Gore then embarked on a crusade against all things mucky in pop, founding the Parents Music Resource in 1985, the pressure group whose lobbying resulted in warning stickers plastered on the front of offending CDs.
  • (11) I've come to talk to her about her latest collection, Memorial , and she picks me up from Totnes station, a calm and formal figure in a singularly mucky blue car.
  • (12) So we seem to be back to the era of the "arty European film" being code for "a bit mucky".
  • (13) We have ancient, mucky trains; frequent breakdowns; no possibility of a direct train to Glasgow or Bristol.
  • (14) This is largely due to what she wears before the action kicks in and she gets all mucky trying to save people from dinosaurs.
  • (15) This week’s cause for irritability is the stupidity of both the pro-privatisation lobby (the government and red-necked Conservatives, who want to privatise everything that moves) and the anti-privatisationists (the “keep your mucky capitalist hands off our perfect NHS” ranters).
  • (16) Imagine surviving napalm burns to a third of your body, when most victims with even 10% perish, and getting to the age of 53 without realising that you’d been involved in a mucky snap all along.
  • (17) For now, at least, it's a relaxing, albeit mucky, attraction for visitors to Cartagena on the Caribbean coast.

Words possibly related to "mucky"