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Definition of Sludgy
1. covered with sludge [adj SLUDGIER, SLUDGIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sludgy
Literary usage of Sludgy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh and Its Neighbourhood, Geological and Historical: With The Geology by Hugh Miller (1864)
"All around is brown with sludge : there are sludgy hollows and sludgy acclivities,
that must have looked considerably better ..."
2. Industrial Chemistry: A Manual for Use in Technical Colleges Or Schools and by Anselme Payen (1878)
"The sludgy mass from which the greater part of the mercury has been separated
still contains particles of amalgam and mercury disseminated through it, ..."
3. Scott's Last Expedition ...: Vol. I. Being the Journals of Captain R. F by Robert Falcon Scott, Leonard Huxley (1913)
"Cheetham in the last dog watch was running the ship through sludgy new ice, making
with all ... The ice of yesterday loose with sludgy thin floes between. ..."
4. Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Several Matters by Great Britain Coal Commission, George Douglas Campbell Argyll (1871)
"... the rupture occurred, while the water contained a good deal of loose sludgy
deposit, and was found frequently to foam up and cause the boiler to prime. ..."
5. Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1900)
"The trucks are so constructed, in cylindrical shape, as to retain their contents
of sludgy tin drift and gravel while being hauled up the incline, ..."
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