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murky

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1. murky - Adjective

3. murky - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Dark; obscure; gloomy.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. Donna Tartt

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does. Jerry Garcia

So the hours are pretty good then?' he resumed. The Vogon stared down at him as sluggish thoughts moiled around in the murky depths. Yeah,' he said, 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy. Douglas Adams

This is I have to admit, one murky compartment of the female psyche which has yet to benefit from the oven-scourer of Reason. Julian Barnes

The book begins with the clang of a cell door closing in a GPU prison. It ends with a shot in the back of the head in a murky passageway of the prison cellar. It moves with the speed, directness, precision and some of the impact of a bullet. Whittaker Chambers

Life is agid. Life is fulgid. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of. Willard van Orman Quine

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