quag

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But a combination of mishaps and bungled central planning finally plunged the country into a hopeless economic quag mire that enraged the workers.

From Time Magazine Archive

So he saw more perfectly the ditch that was on the one hand, and the quag that was on the other; also how narrow the way was which led between them both.

From Bible Stories and Religious Classics by Wells, Philip P.

A precarious thousand a-year—dependent on the caprice of a narrow, tyrannical old man, with a young wife at his ear, and a load of debts upon Cleve's shoulders, as he walked over the quag!

From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

Into that quag King David once did fall, and had no doubt therein been smothered, had not HE that is able plucked him out.

From The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by Bunyan, John

At the Mermaid Inn Men disagreed in friendship and in truth; But he agreed with all men, and his life Was one soft quag of falsehood.

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred