[
UK
/mˈɜːkinəs/
]
NOUN
- an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
- the quality of being cloudy
How To Use murkiness In A Sentence
- I lay alone in the darkened bedroom, staring into ashy, cool murkiness.
- There is a degree of murkiness around the relationship between the murderer and the murdered person.
- These two last examples epitomize the murkiness besetting a serious examination of the occupation of early modem peoples and the identities they derived from their work.
- The murkiness and chaos that attend armed conflict mean military actions are hardly immune to mistake.
- The murkiness and partial rationality of shifting, renegotiable settlements are the vices of politics that legalist liberals seek to preclude.
- The fact that he films everything in semi-darkness adds to the murkiness of the plot.
- There is a mass of murkiness which neither moonlight nor sunlight can penetrate.
- Especially in the first half, they tend too much towards the downbeat, melancholy and densely produced to the point of murkiness.
- Over the Wall, from Heaven Up Here, is a tour de force of crispness and stereo definition, while the fabled murkiness that used to envelop Porcupine has been blown away in a shimmer of sonic brilliance.
- To dissipate in some trifling measure her abiding sense of the murkiness of human life she went to the "linhay" or lean-to shed, which formed the root-store of their dwelling and abutted on the fuelhouse. The Return of the Native