muddy the waters
Example Sentences
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To muddy the waters further, another of Mark McDonald's panel of experts has said that in fact there was post-mortem evidence of air embolism in the babies.
From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025
Ms. Bauer said that the term “advanced birth centers” — so similar to the birthing centers run primarily by midwives — would muddy the waters for patients.
From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2024
“The defense is going to muddy the waters on whether that gun was somehow defective and maybe fired on its own or fired with a slight depress of the trigger.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 7, 2024
All of this tends to muddy the waters a bit around the question of fake license plates, which are hardly defensible on any of these grounds.
From Slate • Apr. 25, 2023
The rips in the map told me that she had not intended this as a clue— Margo was too precise and assured with her clues to muddy the waters.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
