Synonyms for muck
mʌkmuck

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1. sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, oozenoun

   any thick, viscous matter

   Synonyms:
   slant-eye, sludge, guck, easy lay, scoop, droppings, gunk, oozing, goop, slime, max, seepage, ooze, grievous bodily harm, dung, gook, liquid ecstasy, goo, soap

2. droppings, dung, muckverb

   fecal matter of animals

   Synonyms:
   goo, goop, droppings, sludge, guck, ooze, gook, slime, dung, gunk

3. muckverb

   remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine

   Synonyms:
   muck up, mud, manure, mire

4. manure, muckverb

   spread manure, as for fertilization

   Synonyms:
   muck up, mud, manure, mire

5. mire, muck, mud, muck upverb

   soil with mud, muck, or mire

   "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden"

   Synonyms:
   entangle, spoil, bobble, bungle, bollocks, fluff, bollix, mishandle, bollocks up, screw up, foul up, louse up, bodge, flub, grind to a halt, fumble, botch up, bog down, ball up, get stuck, mire, mess up, blow, bollix up, botch, manure, muck up, bumble, mud, muff

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1. List of paraphrases for "muck":

   mud, overburden, sludge, vase, slurry, peat

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1. Aldous Huxley:

   Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.

2. Douglas Noel Adams:

   Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.

3. Barry Schwartz:

   The only way to get out of this muck, out of this quicksand the market's in, is to have a few good days in a row.

4. Roland Barthes:

   To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

5. George Lucas:

   They looked at the stories, and they said, ‘We want to make something for the fans,’ they decided they didn’t want to use those stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing. …They weren’t that keen to have me involved anyway — but if I get in there, I’m just going to cause trouble, because they’re not going to do what I want them to do. And I don’t have the control to do that anymore, and all I would do is muck everything up.