(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.
Musky
Definition:
(a.) Having an odor of musk, or somewhat the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lateral thinking was needed to decipher old signs: Adam and Eve meant a fruiterer; a bugle’s horn, a post office; a unicorn, an apothecary’s; a spotted cat, a perfumer’s (since civet, a fashionable musky perfume, was scraped from the anal glands of African civet cats).
(2) The Temple offers a kaleidoscope of incense-scented mayhem, where golden centaurs and exotic urns sprawl alongside zodiac drapes and musky shrines to the Virgin Mary, Lakshmi and other female icons.
(3) Axillary 5 alpha-androstenone values were generally consistent with the 'musky' or 'strong' smells of male axillary extracts, compared with the 'sweet' smell of those from female subjects.
(4) However, a musky fug reminiscent of boiled onions and violets lingering in the side passage, and the twisted, taper-ended faeces deposited on the path, left me in no doubt as to the thief’s identity – a fox.
(5) And, of course, in 1972 Edmund Muskie, the seemingly inevitable Democratic frontrunner, melted down in part because of a rumor he was prejudiced against French Canadians .
(6) Detection thresholds for a representative from each of seven odorant classes (putrid, pepperminty, ethereal, camphoraceous, pungent, musky, floral) were determined by double-blind smell testing of seven normal males, six normal females, 6 patients with uncomplicated congenital anosmia and 13 patients with the syndrome of congenital anosmia and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (the Kallmann syndrome, olfactogenital dysplasia).
(7) I have fed lots of people their first oysters over the years, and turned them on to the sweet musky taste of urchins, and had my share of disappointments, too.
(8) In another experiment, he eats a woodchuck, enjoying it, "notwithstanding its musky flavour", though he doubts it will become an item for the village butcher.
(9) The Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine reports that the project showed an 11.1% increase in immunization rates in those practices over 26 months.
(10) Examples include crayfish, from the French écrevisse (not a fish but a kind of lobster); sparrow grass as a variant for asparagus in some English dialects; muskrat (conveniently musky, and a rodent, but named because of the Algonquin word muscascus meaning red); and female, which isn't a derivative of male at all, but comes from old French femelle meaning woman.