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  • adjective Dark; gloomy. See murky.

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  • adjective murky

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  • adjective dark or gloomy
  • adjective (of liquids) clouded as with sediment

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Examples

  • Hopefully your Switzerland winter-school reinforced the purity in how science works instead of the mirky fog of that sometimes appears in Universe Today.

    World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today 2010

  • Can you see it there, in the mirky recesses, as it awaits its moment, countless teeth poised to descend upon you?

    Wired Top Stories 2009

  • Details of what kind of plea have remained mirky as his lawyer, Doron Weinberg, has refused to reveal which charges the plea will affect and if the plea will be guilty or no contest.

    Bernie Ward to Change Plea 2008

  • He set out yesterday to expose the mirky underbelly of concealed carry handgun permitting here in the commonwealth and found, in the end, everything he was looking for.

    From On High 2007

  • The sun sank into the mist, giving it a blood-red tinge, and night fell swiftly in the mirky swamp.

    Dragons of Autumn Twilight Weis, Margaret 1984

  • The sun sank into the mist, giving it a blood-red tinge, and night fell swiftly in the mirky swamp.

    Dragons of Autumn Twilight Weis, Margaret 1984

  • Such daylight as followed was dim; for here as the Mountain drew near the air was ever mirky, while out from the Dark Tower there crept the veils of Shadow that Sauron wove about himself.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • "A mirky night for a mirky deed," whispered the young man.

    Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

  • They chose a mirky night, when the thick air seemed too clotted and moist to break into hurly-burly of storm, and yet too heavy and dank to throw off the black envelope of fog and cloud.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various

  • Robin glanced out of the window and saw that they were crossing the river in the mirky gloom of a London winter

    The Yellow Streak Valentine Williams 1914

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