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morass

noun

/məˈræs/

Meaning

A complicated or confused situation; a swampy or boggy ground.

The project got stuck in a bureaucratic morass.

bureaucratic morass

swamp, bog, quagmire, tangle, mess

clarity, order

bureaucratic morass, legal morass, political morass, morass of confusion

a person who pretends to have moral standards or beliefs but acts against them

an adult human female

a person who remains independent from party politics or remains aloof from disputes

the interbreeding of people considered to be of different racial types

The action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.

a barren area of landscape with little precipitation; an arid region with sparse vegetation