There was a muddled maze of dusty furniture—the breakfast-room furniture from the old home where they had lived all their lives.
He was getting rather muddled about it himself, and presently he retired into a corner, where he could be heard muttering, "Learn 'em, teach 'em, teach 'em, learn 'em!
You women have muddled it enough.
Worse still, when his blood boils with rage, his mind becomes muddled, and he is likely to speak or act out of line, causing injury to himself as well as others.
In other-words, his sentences will likely be muddled rather than emphasized.
" Is it possible that memories are muddled and that Jobs did not, in fact, shortchange Wozniak?
" As an adjective addle first had the meaning of "foul smelling and putrid" (specifically said of an egg), and later came to mean "confused or muddled.
Think about all of your friends, and all of the different ways they've muddled through bad situations.
This is muddled thinking.
Their information may be wrong and their thinking muddled, but their feelings are sound, and progress stems from this fact.
But the origins of this festival of candy and cupids are actually dark, bloody — and a bit muddled.
