(n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
(v. t.) To bury in mud.
(v. t.) To make muddy or turbid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
(2) The possible occupational cause of the disease, as more solvents in the mud have the structure of aromatic hydrocarbons is discussed.
(3) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(4) This anterior-like cell preparation contained approximately 80% neutral red-stained cells, none of which carried a surface antigen specific to prespore cells (MUD-1 antigen).
(5) vittatus eggs laid on damp mud were placed in dry rockpools for 10 weeks and kept dry for a further 6 weeks in the laboratory.
(6) Hyflosupercel, Kaolin, and marine mud increased the stability of the enzyme.
(7) Evidence is presented that there is an association between tropical ulcer and exposure to mud or slow moving fresh water.
(8) A Mud(Ap, lac) prophage has been shown to be inserted into the ptsH gene of E. coli.
(9) As BHP’s share price in Australia pushed near 10-year lows on Thursday, the government in Brasilia has become increasingly concerned over the rising death toll and contaminated mud flowing through two states as a result of the disaster.
(10) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
(11) However, the inhabitants of Babaji showed little interest in meeting the British, with compound after mud-walled compound abandoned.
(12) Spending time with the baby elephants was very special; the best bit was watching them have a mud bath and occasionally joining in!
(13) Diluted elements of his style were all over the pop charts: Sweet, Mud, Alvin Stardust.
(14) Here's more details and reaction: Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi more than 50 trials.. blabla... etc, judges have drawn my name in the mud, took up my time, my patience, huge economic resources September 18, 2013 Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi , ridicolous sentence to 4 years, for tax evasion that I didn't commit, and even if I did would be minor.
(15) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
(16) He wrote: “The NHS in Wales will not be the victim of any Conservative party ploy to drag its reputation through the mud for entirely partisan political purposes.
(17) Finally, induced Mud-P22 insertions package more than 100 kb of genomic DNA adjacent to one side of the insertion.
(18) It was a successful breeding season for avocets - black and white wading birds - at Orford Ness in Suffolk, despite a lack of mud for feeding.
(19) Join a guided mud walk from the mainland to one of the islands off the coast.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sisters play in the mud after rare rain at a town camp on the outskirts of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.
Slanderous
Definition:
(a.) Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander.
(a.) Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports.
Example Sentences:
(1) I will confine myself to correcting Kaiman's slanders against the most open and generous immigration system in the developed world.
(2) It is socially very divisive, it is stigmatising, it is subtly slanderous and it is immoral.
(3) It’s unfortunate that companies should have to continue to correct the government’s slander,” the union said.
(4) "I will, no doubt, be interrrupted, shouted down, slandered, put on the spot, and subject to a scrutiny that would be a thousand times more intense than anything directed at other panellists."
(5) "They slandered us, slung mud at us and shut us out of all the news media – the TV channels of the corrupt elite – and we beat them," the 55-year-old leader said as the votes came in.
(6) Sarah Champion, John Healey and Kevin Barron are suing Collins – who represents Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire in the European parliament – for libel and slander for accusations she made in her speech at last year’s Ukip party conference.
(7) They are slanderous and therefore libellous," she told the Sunday Times.
(8) There have been rumours, however, denied as slander by those still there, of rising alcoholism and petty thuggery.
(9) In spite of this manifest acknowledgment of John Hunter's greatness there are nevertheless numerous aspects of his character, his health, and his opinions which have been the subject of criticism, misunderstanding, lack of appreciation, and even slander.
(10) Consideration is given to potential liability due to malpractice, negligent interference with a workers' contractual relationship with his or her employer, libel and slander, and unauthorized release of information.
(11) China has condemned Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister, for "maliciously slandering" its self-proclaimed air defence zone, ratcheting up the war of words between the neighbours over Beijing's annexation of the skies over a group of disputed islands.
(12) During his 45-minute talk delivered from Jamaica, Faisal was heard saying: “Instead of embracing the Islamic State, supporting the Islamic State and doing everything humanly possible for the success of the state … all they do is slander the mujahideen,” he said.
(13) Trump insisted that the press as a whole was “false and slanderous in every respect” and said “the depths of their immorality is absolutely unlimited”.
(14) Qatar’s FA said the remark by Zwanziger showed collective disrespect and was slanderous and he should not be allowed to repeat it, according to the court statement.
(15) While Vatican spokesmen continue to maintain that Seromba is a victim of malicious slander, the Florence diocese announced this week that it had an open mind as to his culpability.
(16) KCNA quoted the foreign ministry as saying: “As the United States is spreading groundless allegations and slandering us, we propose a joint investigation with it into this incident.
(17) But to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see in the images of Jesus Christ that are desecrated, or churches that are destroyed, or the Holocaust that is denied.
(18) As the United States is spreading groundless allegations and slandering us, we propose a joint investigation with it into this incident,” a foreign ministry spokesman said.
(19) Police staying back #OccupyGezi #Turkey June 11, 2013 9.08am BST AKP plans curb on Twitter The ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) has vowed to begin censoring Twitter in an effort to curb "dangerous" slander, the Turkish daily Hurriyet reports .
(20) The drama about the slandered Bristol schoolteacher also won the mini-series prize, one of a number of double winners at the ceremony at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, on Sunday night.