[
UK
/kwˈæɡmaɪə/
]
[ US /ˈkwæɡˌmaɪɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈkwæɡˌmaɪɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
How To Use quagmire In A Sentence
- It is a political and legal quagmire, so nobody will go near it. Times, Sunday Times
- It is a pity that a book that has such detail is unable to overcome the obstacles of intricacy without leaving the reader stuck in the quagmire of literary and historical obscurity.
- Obama was hawkish about Afghanistan during the campaign, despite well-aired fears that Afghanistan is a quagmire-in-waiting. War: Politics and Power
- This would be particularly severe for low income economies that are striving to pullout of their current economic quagmires.
- Each standalone part of the trilogy tells the story of a Stuart king and the political quagmire surrounding them. Times, Sunday Times
- Even so, this is a legal quagmire with the possibility of litigation or fines flying in all directions.
- Unpaved roads, the great majority, could become quagmires with the passage of the first few vehicles.
- The battlefields had become a quagmire of blood, gore, mud, miles of trenches and poor generalship on both sides of no-man's land.
- Here is some unsolicited advice for the Obama administration: you essentially have four days to put US involvement in the Libya war on a path that doesn't look like open-ended quagmire. Robert Naiman: When the House Comes Back, You're Gonna Get in Trouble
- Without a clear approach, companies could see themselves involved in a bureaucratic quagmire.