What's the difference between murk and murky?

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.

Murky


Definition:

  • (superl.) Dark; obscure; gloomy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
  • (2) The NYT article further shines further light into this murky affair, in which both News International and the Metropolitan Police have so far been evasive, to say the least."
  • (3) In another example, Colorado legislators this month had to pass a new state law to allow for a cannabis co-operative credit union that would let marijuana businesses open bank accounts and escape the murky world of cash-only transactions.
  • (4) "The more questions that are raised about this murky business the more important it becomes to investigate further, including who outside the CQC was aware, and what they did," Woodcock said.
  • (5) Why won’t he help?” His 1966 Macbeth, with Alec Guinness and Simone Signoret , at the Royal Court, had pushed Shakespeare’s murky tragedy into unsparing white light, but Gaskill’s unscrubbed classics seemed less revelatory in later years.
  • (6) She set up camp on her first floor and even when the murky water began to climb the stairs was determined to stay.
  • (7) The Kremlin insists that "radicals", including "anti-Semites, fascists and ultra-nationalists" staged a coup in Kiev – with murky western backing – and now continue to destabilize Ukraine.
  • (8) The prime minister told the Sun he had been left frustrated by the experience in 2010, which he had previously described as “murky”.
  • (9) Murky crime drama Shetland (Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1) returns this week for a second series, revealing Shetland as the most eerie – and overcast – location on Earth.
  • (10) How can free expression and the yearning for a private life be protected in this murky arena of a gossip free-for-all?
  • (11) The FPC has neither, so it risks just going quack- quack on a murky pond," he said.
  • (12) Although I've learned to appreciate the grim beauty of murkiness, the washrag skies and mud so jealous it clings to every step, this emerald vision in the monochrome gloom is startling.
  • (13) Instead of talking to the demonstrators – a diverse and previously non-political bunch – he has blamed the protests on a murky foreign conspiracy.
  • (14) Earlier this year we wrote about Gnod , Salford's finest purveyors of ambient sludge, prog-metal and murky motorik psych-drone space-rock.
  • (15) But everything about such attacks is murky; finding the perpetrators is difficult if not impossible, as the architecture of the internet allows for hackers to mask their attack through unwitting users and anonymisation software.
  • (16) Piles of old nuclear reactor parts and decaying fuel rods, much of them of unknown provenance and age, line the murky, radioactive waters of the cooling pond in the centre of B30.
  • (17) Three issues are distinguished in an attempt to clarify a murky debate: (a) the utility of probabilistic methods in data reduction, (b) the value of models that assume indeterminacy, and (c) the validity of the inference that the nervous system is largely indeterministic at the neuronal level.
  • (18) In a world of choice and instant access to information, the murky, semi-translucent process of party politics that is plagued by lies, corruption and plastic promises is something most of us steer clear of.
  • (19) Nor is it just a matter of murky Murdoch practices.
  • (20) John Simm plays a grizzled ex-cop from LA living in the Pacific north-west, who, when his wife (Mira Sorvino) goes missing, finds himself hurled into a mysterious, murky world.