muddle

• Every one who owned shares in Mexican companies, every one who had invested hopefully a little while before in Mexican railways, every one who had any kind of interest in Mexico was of the same opinion about the inaction of the American Government I think it is a muddle," said Ascher, "but the idea in the minds of the men who are making the muddle is a fine one. —  Gossamer 1915
• "You would muddle, and spoil all, when perhaps a Higher Hand is at work, as it always is, to make everything tend toward the best But I should like to be present, by accident, the next time those two lads meet The meeting took place before many days had passed In the interim Ralph Darley had told his father all that had happened, and Sir Morton had frowned, and looked pleased, and frowned again You think I did wrong father," said the lad No, my boy; I think you behaved splendidly; but you see what a miserable race those Edens are. —  The Black Tor A Tale of the Reign of James the First
• His house was a hopeless muddle, the best meals and chief expense being in the kitchen. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
• He consoled himself by arguing that that was precisely what he had been trying to prove them by his sweeping applications of the conduct of Delilah Whichever way he viewed his situation, things were in a pretty fair muddle--a muddle which annoyed him because it was so unmerited. —  The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel
• But the form of clause two doesn't affect him at all No," said Thorndyke; "the person who stands to profit by the muddle is George Hurst. —  The Vanishing Man

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