Muddling

Word MUDDLING
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Definitions and meanings of "Muddling"

What do we mean by muddling?

To mix together, to mix up; to confuse.

To mash slightly for use in a cocktail.

To dabble in mud.

To make turbid or muddy.

To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.

To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.

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The word "muddling" in example sentences

Shell, an Anglo-Dutch oil giant, has three scenarios for the euro zone: what it calls "muddling through", a deepening of monetary union, or a break-up. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But the criticism starts to flow as early as his second chapter, where Stiglitz contends that Obama chose a conservative strategy that he calls muddling through. ❋ By KEVIN PHILLIPS (2010)

If this is what is called muddling through, we would like to see it packaged for export. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I don't buy the double-dip, but I call it muddling along. ❋ Unknown (2011)

So they're kind of muddling through and testing the waters. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Asmal said the DA was "muddling" the difference between academic freedom and institutional autonomy. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Many analysts believed JCRC records were the most complete and authoritative, since they contained largely raw data without benefit of analytical "muddling". ❋ Unknown (1991)

Many analysts believed JCRC records were the most complete and authoritative, since they contained largely raw data without benefit of much analytical "muddling". ❋ Unknown (1968)

His voluminous works, which he commenced to publish late in life, do not indicate that he underwent a "muddling" process. ❋ Various (N/A)

The sight was to me a bewildering illustration of what English "muddling" could do when put to the test. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

From a policy standpoint, the sensible thing to do is admit (as Wolf does) this complexity and ambiguity, and accept a kind of muddling through that, in many political and financial quarters, will be viewed as inefficient and inadequate. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cuban bartenders tend to mix a Mojito by taking a glass and adding sugar, then mint, then lime juice and soda, and only then doing the 'muddling'. ❋ Seamus (2010)

Mr Richter said he was not sure if the ACCC had been "muddling" or been "deceptive". ❋ Unknown (2009)

All the appropriate checkboxes and buttons are where they're supposed to be, and its simplicity stands out so much that you get the hang of it simply by "muddling" through, or experimenting by yourself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

So, once again, it's all the hackers 'fault for "muddling" the debate, as if the emails and computer code generated at the CRU weren't muddled enough as it was. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"muddling," which I like to think of as the heavy petting of cocktail preparation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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