Used in a Sentence

mucks

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for mucks.

Editorial note

The downside to this is that (for the most part) a basic income mucks with the incentive structure.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of mucks gathered in one view.

noun

Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.

noun

Slimy mud, sludge.

noun

Soft (or slimy) manure.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mucks.

noun

Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.

noun

Slimy mud, sludge.

noun

Soft (or slimy) manure.

noun

Grub, slop, swill

Example sentences

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The downside to this is that (for the most part) a basic income mucks with the incentive structure.

2

It's quite possible that the muckety-mucks who signed off on this in the first place were unaware of the implications.

3

So using parachutes adds significantly more weight without giving you what you want, and ditching into the sea also means more structural weight and mucks up your engines.

4

The thing that concerns me the most is that from observation it feels like many of the high muckity mucks of the Scala world would probably be heading in this direction.

5

What netsh winsock reset does is tear out DLLs, tear out various registry settings and mucks about with other system files.

6

My technique was dead in the water on iOS, unfortunately; Apple mucks with the binary (encrypts it?) in the production version.

7

It just mucks with the bayesian priors in a way that favored activists desire.

8

The mucky mucks near the top have nothing to do with institutional audit compliance.

9

Why, I have heard the top VC's, angels, and even YCombinator high mucky mucks raving about Bitcoin.

10

And even when you find one of the nice ones, your browser mucks it all up by thinking it is smarter than the web designers.

11

I don't see how mucks is simpler at all, except maybe for single pane layouts.

12

It isn't just that one knows there's a camera, it that using the thing mucks deeply with humans' instinctual reaction in reading people's eyes and faces.

Quote examples

1

These people would not say "it mucks with the incentive structure".

2

Don't assume your underlying "real time" hypervisor won't screw you by halting the whole god damned system for 20ms while it mucks around with TLBs and physical pages and then resumes you saying, "Have fun putting all the pieces of your pipeline back together, toodle-oo!" Put debug taps and light-weight logging everywhere and attach them to tests.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use mucks in a sentence?

The downside to this is that (for the most part) a basic income mucks with the incentive structure.

What does mucks mean?

Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty.

What part of speech is mucks?

mucks is commonly used as noun.