How To Use Muddled In A Sentence

I moved back to the window and stared again at the muddled urban view where the new intermingled with the old. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
It was the passionate, slightly muddled rancour of a disappointed man.
He left his clothes in a muddled pile in the corner.
My own church had a rather muddled concept of algetic offering that at least produced the proper endurance-discipline. The Golden Torc
Pretty soon I overheard a conversation between two muddled buyers.

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The situation remains muddled in center field.
In fact, the Penguins muddled to a sixth place finish in the regular season standings with a .500 record to become one of eight playoff qualifiers.
You can say that you genuinely forgot, or got muddled up or fibbed. Times, Sunday Times
It was the passionate, slightly muddled rancour of a disappointed man.
For understandable reasons we prefer to think of ourselves as rational agents who live meaningful lives rather than as muddled actors in a theatre of the absurd.
Detail was muddled, and there were occasional specks and flecks in the print.
For the moment, British European policy is as muddled as ever.
Spanish and Italian are very similar and I sometimes get them muddled up .
Both have severe range limitations, but the mono is cleaner and not as muddled as the stereo.
There were problems, but we muddled through somehow.
His thoughts were muddled with emotions, and he wasn't sure of anything.
The finest leaves get muddled for the drink; imperfect leaves go into a simple syrup.
He was still muddled in his thoughts when the servants took away the last course - mostly untouched, as the silence and sobriety had damaged everyone's appetite.
The New York Jets have been the most muddled.
The evidence is so muddled and conflicted when it comes to the efficacy of coercive interrogation that I find it hard to justify these tactics at all, especially given the blowback from their use.
It's this kind of muddled headed logic that seems now so typical of his cockeyed view on many issues.
Director James Robinson provides only the most rudimentary blocking, often, as in the muddled party scene, to the detriment of the drama.
And by “shed some light,” I mean “freak us the hell out and make us wonder about this mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world.” Heene family's TV past: Now, like Balloon Boy, we all want to barf | EW.com
A muddled, confused research question will likely lead to equally muddled and confused results. Sociology
The boundaries between history and storytelling are always being blurred and muddled.
The real difficulty is that, for all its weird and wonderful action, Le Morte d'Arthur is as muddled, ramblingly repetitive and inconsistent as a dream. The Death of King Arthur by Peter Ackroyd – review
There were no signs of the muddled, half-finished goddess statements and in their place was a niftier line in tailoring. Times, Sunday Times
But that's muddled thinking: the point of those terms legally is first to put players on notice that Blizzard makes these claims, and second to estop players from trying to dispute them. One Lawsuit to Rule Them All
As extra features, Sony has included two brief and uninspired EPK style featurettes and a rash of muddled and unimpressive deleted material.
Now this is not a neutral position, this is not a muddled position.
Yet we find in the nineteenth century a muddled picture, a sort of cross-pollination of positions.
Her hearing and sense of touch were perfect if not a bit muddled but for the life of her she could not move one muscle.
A head cold hit me like an anvil last week, and that usually means I'm going to feel too dopey or muddled to write a review.
The government is guilty of muddled thinking. Times, Sunday Times
Initially, the intentions of the West in intervening were muddled and unclear.
It is unfair and unjust that so much muddled thinking has informed the debate right from the beginning.
Alexander remained as certain of the turns to take as I was muddled.
The moral may have become muddled over the centuries, but the music the story is set to remains wonderful.
I'm afraid I'm a little muddled. I'm not exactly sure where to begin.
Successive tight close-ups of the star's rugged features reveal expressions that are less tensely pensive than muddled and confused.
The Commerce Committee, even though it refrained from making a recommendation, has pointed out that the passage of this law would just add confusion to an already muddled area.
The government is guilty of muddled thinking. Times, Sunday Times
I have been getting the title muddled up with a track on the new Client album which is called Undefined
The cleaner had muddled my papers, and I couldn't find the one I wanted.
In the paper which you represent, I noticed an article which I took to be an effusion from your muddled brain, stating that I had "cabbaged" a number of valuable articles from you the night I took you out of the streets of Washoe City and permitted you to occupy my bed. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X)
I felt muddled up when I came to the new class.
The quote and source may be a little muddled, but the sentiment still stands.
Fifteen years after the broken engagement, her attraction to Eddie was muddled neither by youth nor by the threat of matrimony.
It's a muddled and unsatisfying mix of both. Times, Sunday Times
The two distinct categories are muddled in a manner that is difficult to separate analytically.
And the other false equivalency that makes politics so very muddled is that ‘democrats are exactly the same as republicans’ when their policies are quite different. Think Progress » Rendell: Fox News Hosts ‘Deserve More Credit’ Than Tea Party Movement For Marshaling Anger
Stylistically, the language was riddled with neologisms and foreign terms, and the composition was muddled by excessive ornaments.
New students can cling to one another like life rafts to begin with and get into muddled relationships. The Sun
Not only is it difficult to distinguish between legal and illegal ivory, but the message becomes muddled. Times, Sunday Times
Fifteen years after the broken engagement, her attraction to Eddie was muddled neither by youth nor by the threat of matrimony.
What he required of us was that we avoided specious or muddled argument.
They made up this muddled compromise out of all of them.
The money was muddled up with everything else in his pocket.
I am their dad but it all gets muddled sometimes. Times, Sunday Times
Another point that Sanchez muddled is that the liberal leaning of many reporters (lucky for someone like me who devotes his life to eradicating hate crime!) is far more of a socio-cultural issue than a religious one. Brian Levin, J.D.: Rick Sanchez and the Right to be Wrong
Condon takes a sympathetic line, though, in his absorbing cine-biography which promotes the view that however muddled he was, Kinsey was brave to try using scientific methods to explain sex in an age of unreason.
Our appreciation of beauty in a work of art becomes muddled with familiarity.
The story is pretty generic and the action scenes vary in quality, some were crisp and exiting, others were muddled, digitally-enhanced blurs.
We have muddled through, not by great generalship, but by the courage of common men.
This now means that I've seen all extant camelid species (all in captivity, of course), though note that the species-level taxonomy of South American camelids is a little muddled (Kadwell et al. 2001). Archive 2006-05-01
His muddled evidence casts doubt on his reliability as a witness.
In sharp contrast to the autobiography, it tends to be prolix and muddled with excessive detail, and it often reads like a jumbled mix of fantastic stories.
The muddled and inconsequent surface of things now and then parts to yield us a gift. John updike | march 18, 1932 – january 27, 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
Strictly often muddled along on less than ten million. The Sun
His understanding of phylogenies and nested hierarchies is completely muddled. A Disclaimer for Behe?
Could you just repeat those figures - I've got a bit muddled up .
His mind was too wine-muddled to think anything through, other than trading hit and miss blows with his equally inebriated adversary. TREASON KEEP
Outside, the sky was muddled with the darkest blues and somber blacks, though it did not look menacing.
Whether drinks have infusions, fresh fruit or vegetable garnishes, or muddled fruit - fresh, sparkling, simple and less sweet are the buzz words this spring.
Just past the halfway mark for the season, however, things begin to get a little muddled.
By contrast, grunge music seems more muddled. Christianity Today
The problem is the muddled use of the term adware on the part of the AG in the settlement that seems to conflate adware and spyware, two very different things. ClickZ News Blog
But, descrying traces of unmuddled harmony in a part-song one day, he gave his two under cellarmen faint hopes of getting on towards something in course of time. No Thoroughfare
Paint from inside the boxes dripped out of the sides and made the puddles in the courtyard muddled with color.
My reasons for this will show why I consider the term useless and muddled. How I Didn't Become a Conservative
The book's grand aims are filtered through his muddled mind, which has the unfortunate effect of making his spiritual quest seem mundane.
A muddled, confused research question will likely lead to equally muddled and confused results. Sociology
The guide has also got some very interesting other facts on commonly muddled words.
This is a perfect specimen of the way in which wars are "muddled" -- I borrow the expression from Lord Rosebery -- and it deserves thinking over. Lessons of the War Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith
When I made my witness statement I was muddled in the accounts which I gave in paragraph 6 and paragraph 8.
Fifteen years after the broken engagement, her attraction to Eddie was muddled neither by youth nor by the threat of matrimony.
The lesson was not clear and it has muddled me.
Somehow or other, we muddled our way through.
Though sympathetic to the aims of antiwar activists who emerged from each of these groups, his assessment is equivocal and, in some places, muddled.
Secondly, to what extent, in down-playing ideological choices, is he creating a new straitjacket, that of the uncommitted centre which just muddled through?
This is the only way to see the problem without it being obscured or muddled.
The Ginger and Pear Martini combines pear-infused gin with fresh ginger muddled with Frangelico and simple syrup.
If it suggests muddled thinking, then that is what you get when you chop and change endlessly. Times, Sunday Times
The documentation was chaotic, and Amy's heart sank at the sight of the muddled ledgers and wire baskets overflowing with dog-eared papers. THE WHITE DOVE
The next two chapters on medieval India and the Middle Ages are more muddled, perhaps due the the confusing morass of the actual history of the period.
Your muddled brain, full of paperclips and odd socks and dirty cotton wool buds simply cannot function.
The results included muddled avant-garde theatrical staging techniques and insensitive and maladroit portraits of African Americans.
He became increasingly muddled as he grew older.
She was also very muddled about her reaction to her parents.
What is especially disappointing is that the whole election is in danger of becoming just another popularity contest, as many of the candidates have muddled their stances beyond recognition.
He muddled the issues
The aroma is sort of cloudy, with nothing more than muddled hops and malt showing through. New York Beer
If it suggests muddled thinking, then that is what you get when you chop and change endlessly. Times, Sunday Times
I wasn't expected a unified theory of everything, but what I got was a series of half-baked epigrams, muddled thinking and decontextualised attacks on every philosopher under the sun.
His muddled evidence casts doubt on his reliability as a witness.
Not everything works well in Crime as its second disc gets a little muddled with some incoherent and cartoonish moments of slapstick.
Recently the government seems to have lost its way and muddled its priorities.
The period is an especially muddled one for palaeontology, being full of fragmentary fossils that are difficult to assign either to Homo or to Australopithecus.
I was so muddled at the thought that he had almost kissed me that the words never registered.
Despite good supporting work from Keener, the film flounders with muddled pacing and a confusing point of view.
He felt silly that he'd allowed her muddled ravings to addle him in the first place.
Strictly often muddled along on less than ten million. The Sun
Yet I still felt muddled, as the breastwork became more defined in the clouds of smoke from the firing of muskets.
Ambitious plans to invest billions of pounds in South Yorkshire could fail at the first hurdle unless muddled rail networks are sorted out first.
Shifting through the sea of limbs and muddled legs, the young man found his way to the luggage carousel and watched carefully for his duffel bag.
Great concept, but your source image is a little muddled.
The government is guilty of muddled thinking. Times, Sunday Times
Outside, the sky was muddled with the darkest blues and somber blacks, though it did not look menacing.
When I made my witness statement I was muddled in the accounts which I gave in paragraph 6 and paragraph 8.
His mind was too wine-muddled to think anything through, other than trading hit and miss blows with his equally inebriated adversary. TREASON KEEP
Some analysts criticized what they called a muddled policy message from the bank after Gov. Korea Unexpectedly Holds Rate
The word penetrated Billy's hopeless, muddled brain. The Mucker
I had taken in too many impressions; too many thoughts muddled my mind.
Their letters were all muddled up together in a drawer.
Alix suggests that "Kirsty Wark ... asked some fairly daft and muddled questions" in that Newsnight interview, whereas I reckoned she was more or less avoiding involuntary micturition in her big leather chair with beside-herself laughter at his utterly pathetic know-nothing feebleness. Alix Mortimer: Suggesting Osborne Not Up To Job
Furthermore, even though the Summoner engine renders everything in the game, the backdrop of the sky is a bit muddled and artificial, like in Quake 3: Arena.
Tones are tinny and muddled, dialogue often sounds muddled, and environmental noises fail to place in the sonic space.
The task is to improvise towards the least-worst solution available in muddled times and with limited knowledge. Times, Sunday Times
There was a good deal of cheering after the final frenetic dash, eliciting as an encore a muddled and unpoetic account of Chopin's delicately arpeggiated Étude in E flat.
Now our first impression is that at last we have come to the simple plain fact of where the object really is; and that the vaguer relation which I call ingression should not be muddled up with the relation of situation, as if including it as a particular case. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
How he fudges the numbers on the cost side or deals with benefit cuts remains a bit muddled.
You sensed it all along, but the knowledge was hopelessly muddled by the inherent drive to author new life.
She is dreaming of lumps of clay arrayed into the shapes of English archetypes, heading to the moon in their muddled, decent fashion.
This movie is widely considered to be muddled mess, but somehow the producers managed to convince Louis Gossett Jr. to co-star in it.
In the end they was so muddled they didn't know what they was saying. HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
His muddled evidence casts doubt on his reliability as a witness.
As an essayist, he's often contradictory and more than a bit muddled.
Do not forget I am older than you are and my memory is one thousand times less muddled than yours.
The tale is muddled in its telling, with a clutter of secondary characters.
I explain this muddled system to suggest that EMU doesn't have a very clear definition of basic writer.
Their letters were all muddled up together in a drawer.
The government is guilty of muddled thinking. Times, Sunday Times
This, then, is mainly a job of addressing muddled thinking with irrefutable evidence. Times, Sunday Times
Or perhaps it was my mother: even in sleep, my mind was too muddled by the drug to be certain.
The result is a somewhat muddled, yet quite trackable, series of sugarcoated philosophical quandaries that go down like chocolate-covered fish.
I was so muddled at the thought that he had almost kissed me that the words never registered.
The two teams certainly entered into the seasonal spirit, if a little confusion muddled the role-playing.
In a time of war, this is muddled thinking, not moral clarity.
The difference between the two is muddled and may just be a matter of quantity and concentration. Times, Sunday Times
I simply couldn't fathom how such a muddled take on healthy eating still had us in its thrall. Times, Sunday Times
Eventually, by its own lights, the movie stands or falls by what it has to say about race, and this is pusillanimous and muddled.
The only way this will be done is following the existing rail lines, I fear even this is a pipe dream in muddled Toronto. » City Council boards the DRL bandwagon • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape
You're clearly rather muddled about office procedures but I'll soon straighten you out.
We believe it has got it all hopelessly muddled; it is unlikely to agree.
A muddled, confused research question will likely lead to equally muddled and confused results. Sociology
But it was too late to stop what should have been a morale-boosting victory from turning into another dispiriting, muddled mess.
From there, early sparklers were made out of Catawba, which is an American grape that seems to not have the sweet, muddled taste of the others. Visiting the Finger Lakes: Part 2
Right from the portentous and pretentious but utterly muddled opening voice-over that quite inadequately sets the stage, this movie is an embarrassment of unintentional laughs.
And the waiter got the tables muddled up. Times, Sunday Times
I slowly awaken from a deep sleep full of strange dreams, and it comes to my sleep-muddled attention that I definitely should not be waking up right now.
The lesson was not clear and it has muddled me.
Though Hilson sings like a sweet-voiced dream throughout, No Boys Allowed is muddled and devoid of the gutsiness the title leads us to expect. Keri Hilson: No Boys Allowed – review
The government is guilty of muddled thinking. Times, Sunday Times
She was a communist, an atheist -- it had been muddled thinking. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Unfortunately their findings were muddled in a story last week on the BBC News Online website - an error pounced on by politicians anxious to defend an important Scottish industry.
In a significant speech last week, Shirley Williams damned parts of the hastily recooked bill as "confusing, obscure and ambiguous", and argued cogently that muddled policy at the top is compounding the difficulties of managers charged with overseeing retrenchment on the ground. The malady lingers on | Editorial
Her ideas are slightly muddled.
Fifteen years after the broken engagement, her attraction to Eddie was muddled neither by youth nor by the threat of matrimony.
Grandfather was muddled about the children's names.
I'm just following my somewhat muddled thoughts where they take me.
The thinking is good-hearted, but muddled and fundamentally unsound.
A muddled story, poor editing, a neophyte director, less-than-stellar special effects, and a couple poor casting choices have combined to make the movie a shadow of what it could have been.
You are still the essential person inside, just a little bit muddled. GOING OUT
They muddled around the fringes of true power, never quite brave enough or decisive enough to take the plunge.
We have muddled through, not by great generalship, but by the courage of common men.
She was a communist, an atheist -- it had been muddled thinking. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
They look so alike, I always get them muddled up.
They are muddled about it where their own little selves are concerned, they misappreciate it when they deal with the problems of society, and they have a very weak hold of it when they consider (if they do consider) the nature of Almighty God. First and Last
They were so grateful for my muddled, yet earnest, attempts at educational help that it was a permanent embarrassment to me.
Strictly often muddled along on less than ten million. The Sun
Try the Opium Martini special: fresh root ginger muddled with homemade coriander syrup and shaken with a double shot of vodka.
Perceptions are muted and muddled, the passions cool, and thoughts drift to the dreary.
The money was muddled up with everything else in his pocket.
It's a muddled and unsatisfying mix of both. Times, Sunday Times
The difference between the two is muddled and may just be a matter of quantity and concentration. Times, Sunday Times
Spanish and Italian are very similar and I sometimes get them muddled up .
You can see why it is easy to be muddled about carbohydrate.
The guide has also got some very interesting other facts on commonly muddled words.
The British press always gets itself in a tangle over abortion, largely because it tries to follow public opinion and public opinion is muddled.
I made my way to the square where the paper was printed, to find that, even there, the ground was closely strewn with calpac and pugaree, black abayeh and fringed praying-shawl, hob-nail and sandal, figured lungi and striped silk, all very muddled and mauled. The Purple Cloud
Perhaps there is a muddled sense of purpose here.
I'm afraid I'm a little muddled. I'm not exactly sure where to begin.
She muddled all the different kinds of books together on one shelf.
He might have got it slightly muddled up from time to time, but he always knew.
I am their dad but it all gets muddled sometimes. Times, Sunday Times
If it suggests muddled thinking, then that is what you get when you chop and change endlessly. Times, Sunday Times
With England also heavily present in the ICC Test match team of the year, where Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann and James Anderson were also selected, the evening represented something of a coronation for Andy Flower, whose transformation of the muddled and occasionally timid collection of talented individuals he inherited into the current blockbusting Test match force and one-day pretenders has been remarkable. England's Jonathan Trott and Alastair Cook hit sixes at ICC awards
What gets muddled is that the “photo op” is supposed to convey the impression of actual support for his policies. Waldo Jaquith - Hypocrisy test.
February 19th, 2010 at 9: 38 am morgan, rentier is a well established and well defined term. the fact that you are not familiar with it and have some definitions muddled is irrelevant. Matthew Yglesias » Is Stimulus Impossible
My more muddled position is that bringing Paine's words and ideas into our world is like trying to plant cut flowers.

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