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

A woman, in a rhinestone shirt, told me that she wanted to convene her fellow cyclists to whizz by the gulleys and alleyways around Tucson, searching for clues in the muck.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026

Even without sunlight, there were actual plants—clumps of reeds, scrawny leafless trees, even a few sickly-looking flowers blooming in the muck.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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

The banter mucks around as happily in the psychological mud as it does in the corporate slime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2021

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

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2018

Many other mucks might perhaps be found, upon scrutiny, of the nature of the foregoing, where a man of strong feelings was driven by excess of injury to domestic rebellion.

From The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden

In a day of action at Syston Brook, volunteers mucked in to shovel "absolutely solid" silt out of the concrete-bottomed channel, which was then removed by the Environment Agency.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

These shows are much more vital when the cast stops fighting or toiling in the same drama they’ve been mucked in for years.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025

That’s the way nature designed it and how it worked for thousands of years until humans mucked it up — mostly as we overpopulated California after World War II.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024

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

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

“People should prepare for really the worst-case scenario,” Kittell said, where heavy rainfall could send mud and debris sliding off hillsides, mucking up roads and possibly colliding into homes and other structures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025

Fletching arrows, milking goats, gathering firewood, mucking out our stables ... the work is endless.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin