muck

Here’s another running bit that would be so easy to muck up or exploit.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

But as Cara Giaimo writes for Slate, algae enthusiasts are finding tremendous joy in all the muck.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

Osama bin Laden was leading al Qaeda, the liar loans that soon prompted the Great Recession were being issued, and our capital was awash in muck and corruption.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

“Like slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch,” the editors continued.

From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026

I looked down to find myself ankle-deep in muck afloat with the shriveled heads of dead sunflowers.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

The film "mucks up Orwell", according to the Wall Street Journal,, external who surmised: "As comedy, the movie is feeble, and as allegory for the socioeconomically literate it is heavy-handed."

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

To the public, Zucker is the one- or two-season guest star who joins the workplace drama ensemble and mucks up the joint.

From Salon ● Feb. 4, 2022

He picks up a hose and washes down his horse, mucks his own stall, spreads fresh bedding, while the rest of his team, his wife, walks their 2-year-old filly around the shedrow.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021

That makes teams more inclined to take penalties, which further mucks up games.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2018

It mucks 'em for marriage, and spiles 'em for home, 'Cos their notion of life is to racket and roam.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93. September 17, 1887 by Various

As she tells it, she was depicting a fantasy, and people didn’t need their fantasies mucked up by seeing the whole truth.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026

He mucked in and chatted to just about everyone.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024

I think he royally mucked up this whole process, starting with his ill-considered promise back in March 2021 to appoint a Black woman to replace Feinstein.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

Matty Beniers and Jaden Schwartz mucked the puck out of a cluster of bodies along the boards and Beniers tapped it to Dunn, who extended his league-best, personal-best and franchise-best point streak to 12 games.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2023

Down here, in the temple’s literal bowels, there was no faint smell of ink and parchment, only the clashing smells of old wood, sweet hay, and mucked dung.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

The wild card in the movie, and one whose fierce devotion to mucking things up isn’t well explained, is Barry Keoghan as a motorbike-riding blond agent of chaos, Ormon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

But it was the Bruins who were doing most of the mucking up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2025

"There are consequences, we are not mucking around now," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025

And that means finding a problem, guessing how it can be answered or solved, and then mucking around.

From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2024

I've learned not to take too deep a whijf when mucking out the barn, but most of the smells are good, wonderful, and hopeful, if smells can be such a thing.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson