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  • adjective superlative form of mucky: most mucky.

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Examples

  • "I was just wondering which was the muckiest, Mr.St. Vincent or you -- or myself, with whom you have both been cheek by jowl."

    CHAPTER 16 2010

  • I remember newspaper articles from last spring, press announcements from school systems about how many children had contracted not just flu, but the dirtiest kind of flu, swine flu, the muckiest, muddiest type of flu.

    A mostly true story about a swine flu shot, with references to 3 ABC television shows and 1 Will Smith movie 2010

  • It's almost like the muckiest of muckrackers just said: "Not this time."

    Hillary: Wright "Would Not Have Been My Pastor" 2009

  • It's almost like the muckiest of muckrackers just said: "Not this time."

    Hillary Finance Committee Member Compares Wright And David Duke, Says Obama "Used Race Where It Suited Him" 2009

  • But most curious is the fact that we live in the muckiest times in recent memory, and yet Solomon, at the helm of the most powerful news agency in the country, persists in roaming the wide ocean of Congressional corruption in a Captain Ahab-like hunt for Reid's ethical missteps.

    October 2006 2006

  • He was going to splash on through it, but its bottom turned out to be the muckiest muck he could imagine, probably dough left over from the Half-Baked Bog, and he was afraid his legs would sink in like deep pilings and be permanently mired.

    Isle of View Anthony, Piers 1990

  • Her ladyship had to come, of course, at the very worst time of year, when the mud was at its muckiest and the prairie was at its worst.

    The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

  • He carried bark and filled all the muckiest places of the trail.

    Freckles 1904

  • Come silence, like a fainting fit -- the thickest, muckiest silence I ever heard.

    Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899

  • "I was just wondering which was the muckiest, Mr.St. Vincent or you -- or myself, with whom you have both been cheek by jowl."

    A Daughter of the Snows Jack London 1896

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