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  • adjective Resembling sludge.

Etymologies

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sludge +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Several of us have noted below President Obama's descent into ever drearier sludgelike rhetoric, to the point where even the most drooling media Obammysoxers have given up swooning over his silver tongue.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • My hands exploded in shadows, sending crackling energy and burnt sludgelike tentacle flesh firing into the sky.

    Venomous 2008

  • My hands exploded in shadows, sending crackling energy and burnt sludgelike tentacle flesh firing into the sky.

    Venomous 2008

  • The chocolate gets all sludgelike and clumps together at the bottom of the mug, while unsavory bubbles of oil rise to the surface.

    Breakfast Memories 2005

  • The chocolate gets all sludgelike and clumps together at the bottom of the mug, while unsavory bubbles of oil rise to the surface.

    Archive 2005-05-01 2005

  • That sludgelike air doesn't stay over the expressway, of course.

    trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2005

  • Much of that oppressive substance is an accumulation of karmic-related material—thought forms and other sludgelike negativity that have piled up over many lifetimes.

    Arcturian Songs of the Masters of Light Patricia L. Pereira 1999

  • The crowd that filled the winding garden paths that separated the stalls moved at a sludgelike pace.

    Eye of the Beholder Jayne Ann Krentz 1999

  • He noticed a sludgelike black fluid dripping from the creature's two talons that had found his skin.

    Bloodlines Coleman, Loren L. 1999

  • Much of that oppressive substance is an accumulation of karmic-related material—thought forms and other sludgelike negativity that have piled up over many lifetimes.

    Arcturian Songs of the Masters of Light Patricia L. Pereira 1999

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