What's the difference between bumpy and knaggy?

Bumpy


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  • (1) If that is the case, the US is heading for a bumpy, perhaps even a hard, landing.
  • (2) As midnight approached we set off across the bumpy tarmac roads to the outskirts of Mariupol, and soon came across a parked car by the side of the road that the men found suspicious.
  • (3) "The 2011 ad market will be a bit of a bumpy ride."
  • (4) To our right, four miles of wide clean beach, fringed by bumpy low sand dunes sprouted here and there with couch grass, flowering creepers and low bushes.
  • (5) He was so excited about seeing his mother again,” says Emily Veltus, the Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) health worker who had accompanied him on the bumpy drive along forest tracks to his home.
  • (6) It’s inevitably going to be bumpy so might as well keep both ends of my body on track.
  • (7) Paddington It’s been a bumpy ride for the big-screen version of everyone’s favourite bear.
  • (8) A spectrum of ultrastructural features, from the typical "humpy bumpy" subepithelial deposits to the apparent disappearance of the deposits within the epithelial cells, is presented.
  • (9) Loyalists and rivals tipped for powerful roles in Trump's cabinet Read more The departure offered the latest clue that the transition is going to be every bit as bumpy as feared.
  • (10) Bumpy flight for Mr Airfix as he encounters blue-on-blue flak Read more Fallon was also warned by the senior Tory backbencher Alan Duncan that he needed to do more to inform parliament of his intentions, implicitly suggesting Fallon should not have tried to circumvent parliament.
  • (11) Morgan said that the regional newspaper division, which has borne the brunt of the 500 job cuts DMGT said it made between September and 4 April, experienced a "bumpy April".
  • (12) By SEM, the external surfaces of the basement membranes were covered by immune complexes that appeared as a network of "lumpy-bumpy" deposits.
  • (13) Facebook's transition into a publicly traded company has been extremely bumpy .
  • (14) As with the Lib Dems at Westminster, it has been a bumpy transition for the Nats from being a party of perpetual protest into becoming a party of power.
  • (15) The structure of oocysts is described; a peculiar bumpy surface and a calyx-like thickening around the micropyle are illustrated by scanning electron microscopy.
  • (16) When U2 had a bumpy time of it over 1997's Pop, they had enough albums under their belt not to panic.
  • (17) Carpetright revealed that its new financial year had got off to a bumpy start with like-for-like sales down 7.6% in the UK in May but swinging back to growth of 6.3% in June.
  • (18) For if Iraq – with its size, capabilities, resources and its history – is able to move to the path of representative democracy, however bumpy the road, then the impact in the region and the world could be dramatic.
  • (19) She had a nodular, lumpy-bumpy, cauliflower-like asymmetric edema of the nerve head, which suggested direct optic nerve head invasion with foreign tissue.
  • (20) The top of it was bumpy where the varnish had worn away.

Knaggy


Definition:

  • (a.) Knotty; rough; figuratively, rough in temper.

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