muck

You don’t want to muck bait it and drag it out for the sake of dragging it out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026

But while his mates relax, he and his brother muck out the prize calves they are preparing for the Royal Bath & West Show.

From BBC ● May 27, 2026

If sweeping appeals to our collective empathy have failed to resonate—if the public is not moved by Randy Fine’s intersectional shortcomings—maybe we are better off getting down in the muck.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2026

Everyone had seen what the future looked like if time travelers were allowed to muck about in history unregulated and unchecked.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

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

Their clandestine love brings some bucolic light and energy to a movie that often mucks about in Mikolasek’s dim, gray clinic.

From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021

A rangy 6-foot-10, Gafford is athletic at the rim, catches lobs for alley-oops, mucks up the paint on defense with his long arms and, perhaps most significantly, provides jolts of energy with dunk after dunk.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2021

Don't you worry," he said; "I know all the high mucks here.

From Tom Slade's Double Dare by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen

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

"I don't feel like I've actually mucked it up by mishitting any shots, which I think everybody can probably agree, you know what I mean? I played so solid."

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2025

Even if significant debris flows don’t happen, roads could be mucked with mud, “and there will probably be a lot of road closures in and around those burn scars,” Kittell said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025

“The assumption is that the new tissue, whatever you put in there, is going to heal slower because the environment has already been kind of mucked around with,” Altchek said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2023

But weirdo me, I was bom with too much grease inside my skull, and it got all thick and muddy and disgusting, and it only mucked up the works.

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie

Proponents like Liverpool owner John Henry wound up apologizing for mucking with the product.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025

Whittaker says he first injured his teeth when he was 19 and "young and dumb" and "mucking around on the town".

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025

Burns said she always liked matching taller players against shorter players and the inverse, mucking up the opposing team’s vision on the court to force turnovers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2025

Then Simon stood up and Ralph looked at him in astonishment "You! What were you mucking about in the dark for?"

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding