murky circumstances

Two weeks after Putin’s greatest challenger died in murky circumstances at a penal colony above the Arctic Circle, his family were finally permitted to lay him to rest in a carefully-controlled service and burial.


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murky adjective (UNPLEASANT SITUATION) used to describe a situation that is complicated and unpleasant, and about which many facts are not clear: He became involved in the murky world of international drug-dealing. I don't want to get into the murky waters of family arguments.


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