morass
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From this point, however, we descend quickly into a morass, made more morassy by the feelings deeply rooted in childhood sense-memory that many people bring to the matter.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2021
Perhaps a penguin-ish life would be truer of it than a piggish, the nest of it being indeed on the rock, or morassy rock-investiture, like a sea-bird's on her rock ledge.
From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John
To go there we would have had to pass through woods and over small morassy creeks.
From Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by James, Bartlett Burleigh
I have frequently been carried for miles in a hammock by four natives and relays, through morassy districts too dangerous to travel on horseback.
From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John
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