Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Full of or resembling mire; swampy.
- adjective Smeared with mire; muddy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding with mire or mud; of the nature of mire or mud; full of mire: as, a miry road; a miry lane.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy.
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- adjective Relating to a
mire , smeared withmud .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of soil) soft and watery
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Examples
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/ Who does not act, is dead; absorbed entire / In miry sloth, no pride, no joy he hath; O leaden-hearted men, to be in love with death!
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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I feel that I have a decent ability to move situations forward in a positive manor with a few well chosen words or to explain anything from physics phenomena to camp games, but in a new language I thought I would be so limited that frustration would take over and I would be rooted in a field of miry clay unable to move in any direction.
Personal Reflection: Fears and Desires « Peace Corps South Africa 2008
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He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay
Hope Unseen Captain Scott M. Smiley 2010
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He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay
Hope Unseen Captain Scott M. Smiley 2010
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The by-roads were miry beyond description, rain having fallen almost incessantly since we left Winchester, but notwithstanding the down-pour the column pushed on, men and horses growing almost unrecognizable from the mud covering them from head to foot.
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"Queen of the cotton cities", he addresses it magniloquently in the opening line, "nightly I piece you back into existence" – and goes on to do just that, through succulent descriptions of the "frayed bridal train" of factory chimneys; the "warped applause-track of Victorian rain" that wets the miry streets.
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He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay
Babes with a Beatitude Linda P. Kozar 2009
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I completely understand the miry journey of wondering if God is really good and if He cares at all.
The new song in my mouth Meg 2008
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As the dust-carts could not pass through, the inhabitants trusted to storms to wash their always miry alley; for how could it be clean?
A Second Home 2007
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Saint – Denis, never in the Kamtschatka of miry, narrow, commercial streets, never anywhere in bad weather.
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A foggy morning; a miry plain; cold mists from the river traverse the field...
- Aidan Higgins, Langrishe, Go Down
August 28, 2008