"wallow" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It has multiple meanings, so you could use it in a variety of contexts. For example, you might say, "The pig happily wallowed in the mud."
Then today he used his first big speech as a majority prime minister not to wallow in the Conservative comfort zone, but instead to address the issue that the Tories often find most thorny: the NHS.
Some examples are simply charming: the rhinos at Whipsnade zoo now wallow in a renewably heated pool.
In 2007, to mark the 25th anniversary of the match, the Salvadoran Football Association decided to celebrate the team's achievements rather than wallow in their one misadventure.
I, for one, can't wait to grow a fatty beanbag in my own back, and wallow in it contentedly until retirement age.
But it must not be an excuse to wallow or to grandstand.
Most of the Europeans I meet seem to believe that huge numbers of Americans get no health care at all, while the rich few wallow in luxury.
In some respects, recording a cover album as an elder statesman of popular music can be a highly conservative (and self-indulgent) exercise: a chance to rearrange the canon and to wallow in favourites from a distant past.
To be irrational with your own money may be to be foolhardy, to give in to guilty pleasure, or to wallow in caprice.
And, by developing software that analysed and predicted consumers' tastes, companies like Amazon were encouraging people to wallow in esoterica.
But many of the monsters who wallow in the depths of his imaginative creation are ones we recognise.
"The Whore's Child" and "Half in Love" are terrific collections, offering a peculiarly satisfying form of therapy a brief, stylish and intelligent wallow in other people's misery.
