(n.) Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
(n.) Anything filthy or vile.
(n.) Money; -- in contempt.
(a.) Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.
(v. t.) To manure with muck.
Example Sentences:
(1) The muck-raking website Lifenews.ru, which has close links to the FSB, Putin’s former spy agency, has pointed the finger at Nemtsov’s colourful love life.
(2) Their 12-year stewardship transformed an obscure theatre notorious for the austerity of its seats into a fashionable address renowned for its rollcall of stars - including Ralph Fiennes, Diana Rigg, Juliet Binoche and Cate Blanchett - all of whom were eager to muck in with communal dressing rooms and a minimum wage.
(3) 'They don't use tractors, they use cow muck as fertiliser; and they have low-tech irrigation systems in Kenya.
(4) As we picked our way along stream-side bushes, pulling off hard little rosehips and stripping elders of their berries, the scent of September filled the air; the smell after muck-spreaders had been out in the fields.
(5) He's not mucked it up today – he's not really been given the opportunity.
(6) It goes from being a load of muck to being made into a household object.
(7) Time, then, for another "D" word: "decent" Tories and Liberal Democrats, he says, will be expected to muck in.
(8) Billy Ivory (Common as Muck) Okay, well, the BBC drama department still produces, consistently the best drama on TV: Criminal Justice, Occupation, Freefall, All the Small Things, Doctor Who, Revelations, Life on Mars.
(9) Metal-contaminated muck soil (5700 micrograms g-1 Ni, 650 micrograms g-1 Cu and 90 micrograms g-1 Co) was obtained from a farm adjacent to a nickel refinery in southern Ontario and was placed on a field test plot at Brampton, Ontario, during the summer of 1984.
(10) We have previously described a visual area situated in the cortex surrounding the deep infolding of the anterior ectosylvian sulcus of the cat (Mucke et al.
(11) We are in power and therefore we have got a bit of muck on our hands.
(12) And one of the things I had wanted to do for ages was get stuck into a bunch of things that I had been mucking around with that didn't fit into the Radiohead zone.'
(13) Local villagers came out to see them, and Joe, as always was mucking around.
(14) I will leave you in the hands of Gregg Bakowski (gregg.bakowski@theguardian.com if you want to get in touch), and with this video of me and Gregg mucking about outside Guardian Towers earlier.
(15) He got his sleeves rolled up and mucked in like everyone else.
(16) His philosophy of journalism coincided closely with that of guiding Eye spirit, legendary muck-raking reporter Claud Cockburn who dismissed the popular assumption that "facts" lay around like gold in the Yukon waiting to be picked up by a reporter.
(17) "In reality, it gets reported but only as part of the generally muck and mire of grease-blotter journalism."
(18) A real tiny twitch of a balk that Buck and Muck Carver don't spot or understand October 31, 2013 We've got a few more innings to go here so.... 2.01am GMT Cardinals 0 - Red Sox 6, bottom of the 5th Kevin Siegrist, whom you may remember from that game one Ortiz homer, starts the inning for St Louis.
(19) We had five sets of contestants and we got it down to four, so one fewer round in the show, which meant there was much more time for us to muck about.
(20) But under all the scars and muck, there's a soulfulness to McCann's performance.
Murk
Definition:
(a.) Dark; murky.
(n.) Darkness; mirk.
(n.) The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Children and the elderly were urged to stay indoors and some residents who ventured out wore face masks as the acrid murk entered its third day.
(2) But far from clearing the murk that always surrounds News Corporation's dealings with elected power, he has greatly thickened the fog.
(3) Still, even today you can't poke your head out into an old New York building's rear light well without smelling the greed that forced so many to live in ill-ventilated murk.
(4) Every time you close your eyes, an imaginary gay man's imaginary penis rises from the murk, bowing ominously in your direction, sensing your discomfort.
(5) You have to admire the way the Indie keeps going through so much murk.
(6) Then, back in the murk, it may be easier to decide whether the deliberations of 115 world leaders have made the slightest bit of difference.
(7) Labor has been extremely concerned about the impact of this murk on marginal seat campaigns in NSW.
(8) However, at least in some quarters, there is a great will to encourage innovation and avoid the murk that accompanied gene patenting.
(9) But you have to be a pretty implacable Murdoch foe (or career politician) to try to turn misty murk into freezing fog.
(10) Only forecasters talk about “winteriness”, “spits and spots” or “mist and murk”.
(11) That’s the new media, that’s why things go viral.” Social media has deepened the murk.
(12) The words are hard to make out in the reverb-drenched murk.
(13) This may be wrong, of course, but the sudden haste with which Mr Osborne has acted, and the murk that surrounds this decision, is puzzling.
(14) There was, however, an exception, a shaft of clarity and brilliance in the prevailing murk.
(15) Never escaping the murk becomes a moral and spiritual failure.
(16) The fourteenth reported patient with Murk Jansen's metaphyseal chondrodysplasia is presented, with a remarkable followup from birth to the age of 15 years.
(17) In the opaque world of Chinese censorship, a few red lines shine through the murk.
(18) Upcoming debut album Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing was overseen by recent Björk collaborator Bobby Krlic AKA The Haxan Cloak, setting up an interesting tension between his trademark digital murk (exemplified by his 2013 album Excavation) and the heart-on-sleeve crusading of two of Roberts’s biggest musical heroes, Joe Strummer and Bruce Springsteen.