Crossword-Solution: MUDDLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Muddle | v. t. | To make turbid, or muddy, as water. |
| Muddle | v. t. | To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. |
| Muddle | v. t. | To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. |
| Muddle | v. t. | To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. |
| Muddle | v. i. | To dabble in mud. |
| Muddle | v. i. | To think and act in a confused, aimless way. |
| Muddle | n. | A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with MUDDLE (5)
But Master Jervie and I got into a dreadful muddle of misunderstanding and we both hurt each other's feelings.
Babcock’s tender conscience seemed to him a capital farce, and his traveling back to Milan only to get into a deeper muddle appeared, as the reward of his pedantry, exquisitely and ludicrously just.
Barbara Worm, not wishing to take any mean advantage of persons in a muddle by observing them, removed her bonnet and mantle with eyes fixed upon the flowers in the plot outside the door.
But all things come to an end at last, and the muskeg melted away, And frowning down to bar our path a muddle of mountains lay.
Had one been watching him he might reasonably have thought that the man's mind was in a muddle of confused thoughts and fears; but such was far from the case.
Quotes with MUDDLE (3)
It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.
Someone with a fresh mind, one not conditioned by upbringing and environment, would doubtless look at science and the powerful reductionism that it inspires as overwhelmingly the better mode of understanding the world, and would doubtless scorn religion as sentimental wishful thinking. Would not that same uncluttered mind also see the attempts to reconcile science and religion by disparaging the reduction of the complex to the simple as attempts guided by muddle-headed sentim…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1978–2023).