0 present participle of muddy
1 to put mud (= wet, sticky earth) into something or cover something with mud:
They see this as muddying the distinction between prepositions and conjunctions that 'traditional grammar' upholds (pp. 1012-13).
The stress is on flexibility, mobility, mediations, machinations, intrigue, sometimes invisibility, and often an ' intentional muddying of the waters ' (p. 113).
Such muddying of the theoretical waters can be valuable.
This article has made me reflect on how far we can push our institutions into muddying their ivory towers with the mess of reallife work practices.
I am satisfied that the first aim is not necessary and might well have the effect of muddying the law rather than clarifying it.
Research-minded doctors would sense the need to move carefully and would see the importance of not muddying the evidence by using techniques indiscriminately.
If there are no secret reasons, it is merely confusing the issue and muddying the waters to hint at them now.
This appears to be muddying the coastal waters even further than is normally the case across international boundaries.
