sludgy
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The previous February, 132 million gallons of black, sludgy water, heavy with mine wastes, surged through a makeshift dam and down a mountain hollow known as Buffalo Creek.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
“A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” is sticky sweet and sludgy and so cloyingly aesthetic that the roadkill bleeds ropes of twee entrails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
The record was grim and sludgy – partly because the band had recorded it in just two days, with limited funds.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025
Cook over low heat under sludgy and thick; the cherries will have given up their juices.
From Salon ● May 6, 2025
There was a sludgy black sadness at the bottom of it all.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
Here, though, the number was Mr. LeBlanc’s alone, and he gave in to his sludgier impulses, his voice oozing awkwardly around the lyrics, compressing them into unintelligibility.
From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2010
