puddled

adjective

Definition of puddlednext
as in muddled

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  1. dingy
  2. murky
  3. unfiltered
Adjective
  • His third-floor office, in a dingy concrete building across a roaring four-lane road from the Ikeja market, is a charnel house of dead mobile phones.
    Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • The cells are meticulously clean — an intentional and stark contrast to the dingy and squalid prisons of El Salvador’s past.
    David Culver, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of dingy
Adjective
  • The non-specific prayer hints at an innate paganism, a murky complexity roiling beneath Ellen’s adolescent purity; that double nature is increasingly manifest in Depp’s performance as the plot advances.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Dec. 2024
  • At a moment when Xi is positioning China as protector of globalization in the Trump 2.0 era, India fending off questions about murky corporate governance practices and credit rating companies demanding answers is quite the split-screen.
    William Pesek, Forbes, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of murky
Adjective
  • Dinner holds down-to-earth rewards; unfiltered delights balance cryptic intrigues.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The resulting tequilas are unfiltered and free of additives.
    Erik Ofgang, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of unfiltered
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