muddily

With clouded clarity

Muddily means in a muddy or unclear manner.

Water flows muddily when stirred with sediment.

More often the word describes mental or expressive confusion: He explained the concept muddily, leaving everyone more confused than before.

Thinking muddily is thinking without clarity or precision.

turbid

cloudily

In an unclear manner

dirtily · grimily

unclear

vaguely

In unclear fashion

hazily · fuzzily · nebulously · confusingly · incoherently · unintelligibly · opaquely · cryptically · equivocally · indefinitely

soiled

dirtily

In an unclean way

grubbily · sloppily · disheveledly

Opposites
clarity of expression or communication

muddilyclearly

Without ambiguity

lucidly · plainly · coherently · articulately · intelligibly

physical clarity or cleanliness

muddilyclearly

Without ambiguity

limpidly · cleanly · transparently · pellucidly · purely

dryness vs. wetness/messiness

muddilydrily

In understated, ironic manner

cleanly · neatly · tidily · pristinely · immaculately

Phrases
Family

muddied, muddies, mudding, muddiness, unmuddied

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