Morass

We were bogged down in a morass of paperwork.

His father drank himself into a morass of self-pity.

The morass of regulations is delaying the project.

Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.

I wrote to Sacramento about that historical marker, and they've been kicking it around their bureaucratic morass for months.