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muck

noun as in refuse

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noun as in messy substance

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We can’t simply step over it and put it in the past because the muck is too wide and deep.

Skim off the muck that floats to the top every now and then.

From Fortune

The ground simmers at our feet as little mud volcanoes disgorge piles of hot, sulfurous muck.

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Torrential, incessant rain turned battlefields into muck and flooded trenches and tunnels, while bitterly cold nights brought frostbite.

Instead of taking my imagined path up the sun-dappled hillside, we trekked downhill toward the muck and tussocks of a low-lying swampy area not far from the access road.

He said he watched waste haulers back up to the pit and unleash torrents of watery muck.

After a long day of him wading and me watching him in the muck, cocktails were required.

How nice of Bob Dylan to demonstrate that over a lifetime of work, even perfection sometime runs amok into a muck.

Italy, in the muck of an economic crisis, simply cannot afford to help everyone who lands on the shores.

The cops, of course, always attend Hempfest, not to muck up the vibe but to make sure no big, important laws are being flouted.

Roly was inclined to wait for developments, but as the call to "muck-muck" was now heard on the shore, he also withdrew.

Even your dirty paper, Waldemar, wouldn't rake that kind of muck up after ten years.

They were soon broken in; for the yard being full of muck, Pablo took them into it and mounted them.

And must she run, despite the tears And prayers of eighteen hundred years,A-muck in Slavery's crusade?

Even when put into a bag, and dragged to the muck-hill, it moved and stirred, and the next morning was nowhere to be found.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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