miry
- s (of soil) soft and watery
miry roads
- Webster's Collegiate dictionary defines a quagmire as "soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot" and as "a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position.
- A driving rainstorm had kept his car from crawling home over miry roads until 3 a.
- Imagine the trodden, trampled, often miry footpaths, (no, thought-paths) of a long-used mind, pitted with grievances, scarred with ugliness, cumbered with useless lumber, strewn .