Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Confused, disorganised, in disarray.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of muddle.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. confused and vague; used especially of thinking
Examples
“Some analysts criticized what they called a muddled policy message from the bank after Gov.”
“Another point that Sanchez muddled is that the liberal leaning of many reporters (lucky for someone like me who devotes his life to eradicating hate crime!) is far more of a socio-cultural issue than a religious one.”
The Huffington Post: Brian Levin, J.D.: Rick Sanchez and the Right to be Wrong
“And the other false equivalency that makes politics so very muddled is that ‘democrats are exactly the same as republicans’ when their policies are quite different.”
“The only way this will be done is following the existing rail lines, I fear even this is a pipe dream in muddled Toronto.”
» City Council boards the DRL bandwagon • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape
“What gets muddled is that the “photo op” is supposed to convey the impression of actual support for his policies.”
“This is a perfect specimen of the way in which wars are "muddled" -- I borrow the expression from Lord Rosebery -- and it deserves thinking over.”
Lessons of the War Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith
“1552: In my excitement over the thriller at Hull, I got my stadiums with two letters for a name muddled up.”
““I take it that this morris dance — cum-sword-dance-cum-mumming play — forgive me if I’ve got the terms muddled — is a survival of some such practice?””
“Lynskey refers to his "muddled thinking", his "feeble" words, and says he played the clown.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘muddled’.
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•Open List: Ways to Get Your Hash Bro...
If you are not familiar with Waffle House, you are still welcome to contribute, but I hope you will sit back and get the gist first.
The Waffle House menu:
HASHBROWNS
all the way, topped, capped, peppered, diced, chunked, covered, smothered, scattered, insulted, smacked, belted and 165 more...
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WOOZ
Words contained in the screenplay of Wizard of Oz, 1939 film.
Comments show the actual "line" from the film.
The words are tagged for grade-levelpusillanimous, genuflect, cataclysmic, vernacular, peasantry, aver, caliginous, tedious, advent, careworn, bovine, commodity and 34 more...
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National Library Agenda Summit
nla2006, summit, agenda, library, ala, diversity, education, learning, continuous, scan, environmental, plan and 646 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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simple & useful9
heartrendingly, rancorous, ferocity, earful, dispiriting, dandification, ascribing, monotonic, smattering, yesteryear, sword of damocles, blubbering and 104 more...
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My GRE
concomitant, mendacity, corollary, mandate, ascertain, exacerbate, substantiate, perennial, exemplify, hegemony, acrimonious, repertoire and 653 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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dazed and confused
stymied, flabbergasted, rattled, ruffled, bewildered, mazed, addled, befuddled, muddled, baffled, bemused, discombobulated and 20 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for muddled.
dbekeny GLINDA
Well, I'm a little muddled. The Munchkins
called me because a new witch has just
dropped a house on the Wicked Witch of the
East. And there's the house, and here you
are, and that's all...
Jun 11, 2010