Examples of muddy

• The situation is admittedly somewhat muddied by the fact that the construction in is recessive.

• In the case of rise, it is possible that the existence of raise (as opposed to make rise) muddies the waters to an extent.

• My first task will be to say why the focus upon mental representation has muddied the waters.

• Gregory seems to have confused the chronology of events in the 520s and 530s, just as he had muddied that of the two previous decades.

• She muddies the waters further in her efforts to justify toleration as recognition.

• They see this as muddying the distinction between prepositions and conjunctions that 'traditional grammar' upholds.

• Here their prescriptions were often muddied by the residual influences of the patriarchal, theocratic system.

• The picture is muddied somewhat by the fact that inflection itself isn't always regular.