adjective
- resembling or having the characteristics of a quagmire; swampy, boggy, or muddy
- difficult to escape from or resolve; entangling
Usage: literary
Usage: figurative
Examples
- The hikers avoided the quagmiry section of the trail after the heavy rains.
- His boots sank into the quagmiry ground near the pond.
- The legal dispute became increasingly quagmiry as more parties joined the case.
- She found herself in a quagmiry situation with no clear solution.
- The wetlands were too quagmiry for the construction project to proceed.
- The negotiations grew quagmiry when new demands were introduced.