Sentence examples for muddled use from inspiring English sources

Mrs Malaprop's muddled use of language is the inspiration for malapropism – while the inspiration for her name was the French phrase mal à propos, meaning "misplaced" or "wrongly positioned".

They claim to be helping him, but are they just using the poor muddled dupe to advance their own nefarious ends?

To say the thinking behind the ads is muddled is to use comical understatement.

"So we muddle through, using a variety of methods to discern how old people are, but they're not exactly foolproof".

This study wants to (1) show the complexity and incremental nature of market strategy renewal processes, (2) seek additional explanations for the antecedents of incrementalism in strategic decision-making and (3) illustrate the process of muddling by using critical incidents in a market strategy renewal effort of an industrial company.

But the picture is more muddled when one uses other marketing strategies.

Leonardo da Vinci, whom Cozens cites as the inspiration for his own pedagogical technique, uses similarly muddled forms for the purpose of "arousing the mind to various inventions".

Don't muddle this by using vague opinions or confusing vocabulary.

Fallon's precious art department wanted to use the services we peons use every day but the application design was too muddled and messy.

Though the stereotype is that Federer uses his racket like a wand and Nadal uses his like a hammer, the roles often got muddled Thursday.

He used rye, diluted the drink with club soda and muddled the cherry.