miry

mire | American Dictionary

mire
noun[ Cusually sing ]
us/mɑɪər/
an area of deep, wet, sticky earth, or fig. any messy situation:
The cart’s wheels sank in the red mire.
mire
verb[ T ]
us/mɑɪər/
to cause something to sink in deep, wet, sticky earth, or fig. to cause someone or an activity to become trapped in a difficult situation:
fig. At the time the country was mired in the Great Depression.

Examples of mire

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At that time the broad outlines of rebuilding were still deeply mired in contention.
Their earthly lives are mired in guilt ; even their virtues are just dazzling vices.
Without this elite support their initiative would have remained mired in obscurity and doomed to failure.
The topic has been mired in ill-repute for the simple reason that good evidence for fueling sensible theories has been hard to come by.
Politics, mired as it is in elite domination and the employment of coercive force, is ill-suited to the pursuit of any moral goal.
In the struggle for influence and authority, the troika, more often than not, was mired in a morass of intrigue and friction.
How can we overlook the fact that we are mired in the details of daily life and that perfection has always been a destructive dream?
They hated every moment of the show, and judged the production of cripplingly poor quality, the narrative inexcusably couthy, and its representations mired in stereotype.
The smallest soil nutrient pools are found in fellfields (because of low soil nutrient concentrations and shallow soils) and mires (because of low soil concentrations and low bulk densities).
The danger of such a dual structure, if frozen over time, is that of a permanent inshore group mired in poverty juxtaposed against a wealthier offshore sector.
However, civil society and political culture in some instances remain mired by a lack of political maturity and sophistication and a superficial attachment to economic performance.
The procedure may have been cosmopolitan (arbitrators drawn from a number of different states impartially enacting international mores and norms) but the substance of the law was mired in statism.
The remainder is mired in competition, and there are inequalities in that competition.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Fact: the economy has ever since been mired in such deep recession.
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