murky

Word family

1 DARKdark and difficult to see through 陰暗的，黑暗的；朦胧的

murky water

濁水

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2 complicated and difficult to understand 複雜的；難以理解的 SYN obscure

The laws on intellectual property are murky.

知識産權法複雜難懂。

the murky waters (=complicated subject) of sexuality and jealousy

性欲和嫉妒心理這些講不清楚的事情

3 DISHONESTinvolving dishonest or illegal activities that are kept secret 不光彩的，不可告人的，不清白的 SYN shady

a murky world of fraud and secret deals

充滿欺騙和秘密交易的肮髒世界

a politician with a murky past

歷史不清白的政客

—murkiness noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

murky• Water that was clear and alive with wildlife as recently as the late 1940s is now murky and almost lifeless.• the murky and ambiguous world of spying• He walked from there, up barren gray streets, streetlamps painting the sidewalks a murky bronze.• The fact that the definitions of these terms are extremely murky can inpart be traced to the notion of pertinent effects.• Video: This is the murkiest field for the new company.• There is an eerie stamp of disaster about this wind-thrown entanglement in the murky half-light of night water.• The committee is struggling to sort out the facts on a number of murky issues.• Determining motivation in any human endeavor is a murky matter, but two motives stand out: making money and making law.• By afternoon the atmosphere seems translucent blue, like some murky view must have looked through a Silurian sea.• A single sinuous shape, shedding milk light, moved in the cold, murky water overhead.• murky water

murky waters• A last desperate attempt to escape into the murky waters.• I would be chary of anything caught in these murky waters.• Multi-dimensional scaling can help to clear the murky waters.• People still exhibit articles for sale on the quayside for visiting cruise ships, but boys no longer dive into the murky waters.• This is useful if you fly by night or live in murky waters.• To venture into such murky waters claiming scholarly privilege, the scholarship must be beyond reproach.• A fish that comes from slow-moving often murky waters is unlikely to appreciate bright lighting or turbulent filtration.• But then our conversations took a dive into the murky waters of sexuality and jealousy.

Syllable

Corpus

BNC: 11317 COCA: 9073

murky adj.
⇨ cloudy

BNC: 11317 COCA: 9073

murky

Darkness: darkness, shade, blackness...

Morally bad or wrong: evil, wicked, gross...