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Definition of mucky in English: muckyadjectivemuckiest, muckier ˈmʌkiˈməki 1Covered with dirt or filth. he took off his mucky boots Example sentencesExamples - I don't know what I'd do without mine, as my back window gets terribly mucky in rainy weather.
- Tash had been right; they were unlikely to come across anyone in these deserted side-ways, yet they weren't dirty or mucky like the alleys of the city.
- Sunlight swarms through and over the pale-green saw grass, plays along the surface, dives down to the dark, mucky bottom, and spreads back up to engulf our little group.
- She is fascinated, for example, by the smell of men - ‘their work clothes and tools and tobacco and mucky boots and sour-cheese socks.’
- The ground looked good from the beginning though and even on the mucky entrance to the course carloads of immaculately-dressed beauties were everywhere.
- The driver's side window opened, which allowed more water to pour into the car and also make it sink further into the mucky bottom of the ditch.
- Muttering and cursing to herself she pulls herself upright and finds that her trousers are covered in mucky water from a bowl that has been left on the floor.
- A number of elderly supporters failed to hold their footing and had to be assisted back up off the mucky ground with their clothing clearly soiled.
- Show officials, stewards, judges and workers were in abundance and the hands-on people could easily be recognised by their mucky boots and ill-fitting, handed down bowler hats.
- Whether going forward or in defence these three were everywhere, covering every mucky blade of grass.
- In mucky work boots and jeans he marched across the carpet of York model agency, sat down in front of the stunning blonde who ran the show and said defiantly: ‘I want you to turn me into a male model.’
- Across the mucky yard what can only be described as a run down shed, with a tarpaulin roof and a piece of pallet for a gate, was home to four Alsatians.
- We crawled forward through the slimy, mucky, mass.
- There was a field beside the road, half mucky dirt and clods, and half graying grass struggling for vitality.
- As a child, we had them for particularly rainy days walking to school when, because of their nature, we could splash in puddles with impunity and squelch our way through mucky grass verges.
- The morning light was diffused to a mucky orange by the pollution of the shuddering city.
- I was walking down the main street and I saw a duck eating a dirty, mucky wet leaf - the poor things are not finding food.
- The bus hurtled by, spraying a mucky puddle over my shoes.
- A million pot-holes, mucky streets, traffic jams topped by heavy showers ensure a two-hour drive to the nearest mall.
- I stood up and kicked some dirt, it formed a mucky cloud.
Synonyms dirty, filthy, grimy, muddy, mud-caked, grubby, messy, soiled, stained, smeared, smeary, scummy, slimy, sticky, sooty, dusty, unclean, foul, begrimed, bespattered, befouled, polluted, squalid, insanitary informal cruddy, grungy, yucky, icky, gloopy, crummy British informal manky, gungy, grotty Northern Irish informal bogging Australian/New Zealand informal scungy literary besmirched rare feculent - 1.1informal Corrupt or sordid.
a mucky mix of political wheeler-dealing and multinational corruption Example sentencesExamples - Daily life and work is becoming ensnared in the undercurrents of mucky politics that pervades almost every aspect of work life.
- Let us escape from the mucky world of politics for a day and enjoy the cleaner healthier world of heavy engineering.
- Through it all, there have been two constants: the Queen is pragmatic and restrained, and the media is all over every mucky story.
- Still, at least we can rely on Richard Curtis to sparkle fairy dust on the mucky world of politics - he's writing a screenplay about the G8 summit.
Synonyms dirty, filthy, grimy, muddy, grubby, shabby, messy, soiled, stained, smeared, smeary, scummy, slimy, sticky, sooty, dusty, unclean, foul, squalid, flea-bitten, slummy - 1.2British informal Mildly pornographic.
Example sentencesExamples - Can we expect any more mucky animal porn tasks in this new series?
- Angel told the Greenock Telegraph that she had already had some enquiries, although a number were a bit mucky.
- There, 5.3 million home Net users spent more than an hour visiting hot sites, while the research found that 40 per cent of Spanish home Net users visited a mucky site in June.
- Xinhua, China's official news agency, reports that one of its staffers was offered mucky clips as a purchase incentive when he asked for a demo of the video.
- A Californian pornographer is suing Google for copyright infringement alleging the search engine's image search is giving people free peeks at its mucky pictures.
- However, last week an ecclesiastical court gave the go-ahead - just as long as the masts met safety guidelines and weren't used to carry mucky material.
- He was accused of accessing mucky pictures and the website of a Las Vegas escort agency.
- During that time it attracted some 16,000 hits as punters paid to watch mucky movies.
- On Fox, which liked to test the limits of acceptability on mainstream US TV, the series was permitted to poke about in mucky areas from which other networks would have shied away.
- He has announced that the company wants the public to send in its homemade videos - and he doesn't mind how mucky they are.
- On the first page of Allison's Awakening, one of the mucky books on my bedside shelf, the publishers warn that ‘this book is a work of fiction.’
Derivatives noun ˈmʌkɪnəsˈməkinəs Rather, it appeals to those who revel in the muckiness of oil paint. Example sentencesExamples - But he has an eye for human behaviour, in all its muckiness, that is totally clear.
- Smiley is matter-of-fact about the muckiness of farm life: castrating piglets, spreading dangerous chemicals and eternal scrubbing.
- The muckiness is intensified on warmer days when the snow and ice melts into a brown slush.
- Amongst the muckiness of poverty, walking past shops with aisles of dusty goods, along an empty road, I come across a man whistling.
Rhymes clucky, ducky, happy-go-lucky, Kentucky, lucky, plucky, yucky Definition of mucky in US English: muckyadjectiveˈməkiˈməkē Covered with or consisting of dirt or filth. guests carried their food on trays to mucky tables Example sentencesExamples - Whether going forward or in defence these three were everywhere, covering every mucky blade of grass.
- Muttering and cursing to herself she pulls herself upright and finds that her trousers are covered in mucky water from a bowl that has been left on the floor.
- There was a field beside the road, half mucky dirt and clods, and half graying grass struggling for vitality.
- Show officials, stewards, judges and workers were in abundance and the hands-on people could easily be recognised by their mucky boots and ill-fitting, handed down bowler hats.
- She is fascinated, for example, by the smell of men - ‘their work clothes and tools and tobacco and mucky boots and sour-cheese socks.’
- Across the mucky yard what can only be described as a run down shed, with a tarpaulin roof and a piece of pallet for a gate, was home to four Alsatians.
- I don't know what I'd do without mine, as my back window gets terribly mucky in rainy weather.
- In mucky work boots and jeans he marched across the carpet of York model agency, sat down in front of the stunning blonde who ran the show and said defiantly: ‘I want you to turn me into a male model.’
- The ground looked good from the beginning though and even on the mucky entrance to the course carloads of immaculately-dressed beauties were everywhere.
- A number of elderly supporters failed to hold their footing and had to be assisted back up off the mucky ground with their clothing clearly soiled.
- The driver's side window opened, which allowed more water to pour into the car and also make it sink further into the mucky bottom of the ditch.
- The bus hurtled by, spraying a mucky puddle over my shoes.
- I was walking down the main street and I saw a duck eating a dirty, mucky wet leaf - the poor things are not finding food.
- Sunlight swarms through and over the pale-green saw grass, plays along the surface, dives down to the dark, mucky bottom, and spreads back up to engulf our little group.
- Tash had been right; they were unlikely to come across anyone in these deserted side-ways, yet they weren't dirty or mucky like the alleys of the city.
- As a child, we had them for particularly rainy days walking to school when, because of their nature, we could splash in puddles with impunity and squelch our way through mucky grass verges.
- A million pot-holes, mucky streets, traffic jams topped by heavy showers ensure a two-hour drive to the nearest mall.
- I stood up and kicked some dirt, it formed a mucky cloud.
- The morning light was diffused to a mucky orange by the pollution of the shuddering city.
- We crawled forward through the slimy, mucky, mass.
Synonyms dirty, filthy, grimy, muddy, mud-caked, grubby, messy, soiled, stained, smeared, smeary, scummy, slimy, sticky, sooty, dusty, unclean, foul, begrimed, bespattered, befouled, polluted, squalid, insanitary |