The word "mired" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a verb meaning to become or cause to become stuck in a difficult, hopeless, or tedious condition. Example sentence: She became mired in an endless cycle of debt.
But, as Kauder Nalebuff's book illustrates, this is a subject long mired in shame and confusion – there are girls who know nothing about periods until their first one arrives, and assume it is a sign of impending death.
Blamed for the recession that Ireland is still mired in, Fianna Fáil has for the last 12 months been enduring record low support in opinion poll after opinion poll.
Some have grown wealthy, others are mired in poverty.
They were firmly back where they started out before his employment: mired in mid-table inconsistency and in acute danger of getting knocked out in the Champions League group stage for the first time in nine years.
But there's a more subtle point here, too, one that doesn't apply only to people mired in denial: we're all constantly revealing far more about our emotional lives than we may realise.
Syriza's recent electoral success was a clear indictment of the budget-strangling policies that left Greece mired in a depression for the last five years.
The SDLP is still licking the wounds of its general election drubbing by Sinn Fein and, with the Good Friday process still mired in dispute over IRA disarmament and police reform, all the centrist parties are under remorseless pressure from hardliners.
Schlepping Australian novels with me to Italy became a private ritual, and never, ever have I felt as happy as when mired in the gentle sea and sunshine beside the Mediterranean while breathing in the literature of an the island continent where I grew up, a place I knew intimately but, somehow, preferred from afar.
This little-known process, mired in the jargon of highways and transport legislation, allows local authorities to close roads permanently to allow new developments to be built.
He was not mired in old Labor conflicts.
Last year, the government was mired in difficulty when it tried to pass a communications bill that became known as the "snoopers' charter", and would have allowed the bulk interception and storage of UK voice calls and internet traffic.
