Synonyms for mired
mired

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1. involved, miredadjective

   entangled or hindered as if e.g. in mire

   "the difficulties in which the question is involved"; "brilliant leadership mired in details and confusion"

   Synonyms:
   involved, knotty, convoluted, tortuous, tangled

   Antonyms:
   unencumbered

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1. List of paraphrases for "mired":

   steeped, engulfed, plunged, stuck, embroiled, immersed

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1. Roger Barker:

   They have a responsibility to their shareholders to make certain that the company’s cash is not going towards sporting events mired in bribery and corruption allegations.

2. Gregory Cheadle , of California:

   President Trump is a rich guy who is mired in white privilege to the extreme, republicans are too sheepish to call him out on anything and they are afraid of losing their positions and losing any power themselves.

3. Michael Shermer:

   It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

4. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon:

   For this reason, I am requesting that for the good of Puerto Ricos, you abdicate your position and allow a peaceful transition of government to bring peace and tranquility to our island, which has been mired in a fiscal crisis, severely exacerbated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

5. Alaina Petty:

   Let’s not get mired down in that debate, there will be time for that. Right now, we secure our schools. Next, we figure out what went wrong.