quagmire Definition
quag·mire (kwag′mīr′, kwäg′-)
quagmire Synonyms
quagmire
n.
Swamp
Dilemma
perplexity, entanglement, quandary, morass; see difficulty 1, 2, predicament.
quagmire Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- mud: Both directions have given at best a handful of gems in a quagmire of mud.
- pitch: In freezing cold weather on a very small, badly sloping quagmire of a pitch both teams found it hard to get any rhythm.
- uncertainty: Instead it will bog them down in a quagmire of scientific uncertainty and public questioning.
- rule: The credit they deserve sorts through the quagmire of rules and regulations to see what you're entitled to.
- issue: Naturally, this idea is tangled in a quagmire of issues about authorship, editing, context and reception.
- opportunism: I must, I repeat, note with regret that both these comrades have landed in the quagmire of craven opportunism.
Possessives
word: Answer: See #2 Reply: Does the word ' quagmire ' ring a bell?
Converse of object
- become: Aintree can dry out quickly or become a quagmire with heavy rain on watered ground.
- create: The rules governing eligibility for international representation have created a political quagmire for several sports in Northern Ireland.
- resemble: Our garden resembles a quagmire in the wet, but the vacuum did its job and picked up pretty much everything thrown at it.
- remain: The terminology of ethnicity and immigration remains a quagmire of complexity and entrapment.
- leave: Actually, when the series leaves the moral quagmire of the love story, it stands on much firmer historical ground.
Adjective modifier
- bureaucratic: In the increasingly bureaucratic quagmire in which we live, an up to date will should be everyone's number one priority.
- muddy: With all the rain, the ground was very soggy... it quickly degenerated into a muddy quagmire at the jumps.
- moral: Our decline over the centuries into the moral quagmire of always following the prince of this world will continue.
- legal: The effects of this legal quagmire on capitalism are crippling.
- financial: Max is a producer who is stuck in a financial quagmire due to his golden touch for producing complete catastrophes.
- political: The rules governing eligibility for international representation have created a political quagmire for several sports in Northern Ireland.
Preposition: in
post: Anyhow, CWV warrior looks at Christianity's cultural mandate and Church leadership in the postmodern relativistic quagmire in this post.
Browse dictionary entries near quagmire
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