muddy the waters

Example Sentences

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The disinformation is often designed to muddy the waters for Russia’s domestic audience rather than make a convincing case worldwide.

From Washington Post

"People who do good things for bad reasons and people who do bad things for good reasons. I like to muddy the waters."

From BBC

By “proactively” telling its story, as the job listing states, its aim is to muddy the waters of oil company coverage by getting its defense before the public even before critical articles appear.

From Los Angeles Times

“They are desperately trying to muddy the waters because they know the public is on our side.”

From Washington Post

Ultimately, the company’s goal was to “muddy the waters” and make sure lawmakers were divided in order to “forestall a cross-party alliance that was emerging to enact tougher rules on social-media companies in general and Facebook in particular,” notes the Journal.

From Slate