0 an area of deep, wet, sticky earth
1 an unpleasant situation that is difficult to escape:
2 an area of deep, wet, sticky earth, or fig. any messy situation:
3 to cause something to sink in deep, wet, sticky earth, or fig. to cause someone or an activity to become trapped in a difficult situation:
fig. At the time the country was mired in the Great Depression.
At that time the broad outlines of rebuilding were still deeply mired in contention.
Their earthly lives are mired in guilt ; even their virtues are just dazzling vices.
Without this elite support their initiative would have remained mired in obscurity and doomed to failure.
The topic has been mired in ill-repute for the simple reason that good evidence for fueling sensible theories has been hard to come by.
Politics, mired as it is in elite domination and the employment of coercive force, is ill-suited to the pursuit of any moral goal.
In the struggle for influence and authority, the troika, more often than not, was mired in a morass of intrigue and friction.
How can we overlook the fact that we are mired in the details of daily life and that perfection has always been a destructive dream?
They hated every moment of the show, and judged the production of cripplingly poor quality, the narrative inexcusably couthy, and its representations mired in stereotype.
