sloughy

IPA: sɫˈʌfi

adjective

  • Marshy; having the characteristics of a wetland.
  • Resembling dead skin.
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Examples of "sloughy" in Sentences

  • Cavity sloughy throughout and cæcum covered with dull grey lymph.
  • The Swedish Reform Church was in a sloughy, weedy district, near a group of factories.
  • And that element is very much the center to this tale of terrorism and sloughy bureaucracy.
  • "We found no evidence to recommend the routine use of larval therapy on sloughy leg ulcers to speed up healing or reduce bacterial load," Dumville and colleagues conclude.
  • Gummatous ulcers are usually situated on the dorsum, are frequently multiple, and have sloughy, undermined edges; the surrounding parts, although indurated, are not so densely hard as in cancer; there is not necessarily any involvement of lymph glands.
  • Even my friend, the respected driver of the Old Union Cambridge Coach to London, can remember, in his time, the coach being two days on the road, and occasionally being indebted to farmers for the loan of horses to drag the coach wheels out of their sloughy tracks.
  • At five in the afternoon they all complained of fatigue, and we looked around us for a landing-place, where we might rest awhile, but we could find none, for every village which we saw after that hour was unfortunately situated behind large thick morasses and sloughy bogs, through which, after various provoking and tedious trials, we found it impossible to penetrate.

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