"marshy" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective which means "consisting of or containing a marsh or swampy land". For example, "The wetland in the marshy part of the forest was full of frogs and snakes."
Probably a self-portrait, it is a gaunt, life-sized full-frontal nude with a skin-tone of bilious marshy green and orange nipples and one baleful, red, staring eye.
Shoreditch was, and remains, an area notorious for drinking and disorder, a maze of alleys dotted with marshy fields, rank with crime and the haunt of actors and musicians.
In the days when oil prices were high, the president decreed that a space-age metropolis would rise from the marshy land on the left bank of the Yesil river.
Mr Garton Ash brings the reader sure-footedly through the thickets of Germany's post-war history and through the marshy ground of moral relativism.
Many people scoffed when Shanghai announced plans in 1990 to develop what was then just an expanse of marshy land, villages and old factories into the city's new financial district.
Unable to see where they were going, many ran down a muddy slope and into a marshy canal.
The idea is to use this land to restore the natural flow of water from Lake Okeechobee into the marshy Everglades the "river of grass", as a leading environmentalist once called them.The growth of Orlando to the north, combined with intense agriculture and federally built drainage canals to prevent flooding, have in recent decades fatally disrupted and polluted the ecosystem of the Everglades.
"The infidels are cruel to us and beat us," goes a common refrain.Severe poverty the sight of ten people living under a single roof without electricity is as common as that of forced labour on the roads along the marshy sea exacerbates Muslim resentment, particularly given the false but intractable belief that Myanmar's Buddhists are getting rich.
Construction of these, in what is now a marshy lagoon on the Pacific side, should start in a few months.
But it may not persuade those who believe that Nolde's greatest works arise from his chief inspiration: the folklore, flowers and flat marshy landscape of his native Schleswig-Holstein that is sandwiched between the Baltic and North seas.
The pretence was that the land to the east was unpopulated, or if it was occupied, then somehow that it didn't matter.Slavs, Poles and Jews were described by the Third Reich in characteristically watery, marshy terms denoting their passivity, their cunning, their fertility, their lack of civilisation.
