brackish

A brackish breeze blew off the Black Sea, mixing with rotting garbage, human sweat, cheap cleaning products, and undefined fumes.

I am bored to death, to extinction; my thoughts are the colour of that water which flows over yonder, brackish and heavy.

This animal is fond of brackish water, therefore he most commonly inhabits those rivers which border on the sea.

Captain Stirling examined them both: the former to its source, the latter beyond the point where the water ceased to be brackish.

They were marooned on a desert island with practically nothing to eat and nothing but brackish swamp water to drink.

Often the only water they had to drink was supplied by "brackish" ponds, whose surface was covered with greenish slime.