mired

Whole systems have sunk into chaos or revolution, because greedy politicians were mired in corruption and blackmail with their people suffering the while.

Sami was mired in mud.

The very manner in which the greedy miser carried himself was mired in foul wretchedness.

In the 1990s, Algeria was mired in violence.

The newspaper was mired in scandal when it was discovered that some of its reporters had engaged in the phone hacking of several high-profile individuals.

Well-intentioned plans to replace half of the office's trash cans with recycling bins inevitably became mired in red tape.