(a.) Full of knots; knotty; twisted; crossgrained.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then there's a figure like Bassnectar, who can play the big carnival-style festivals but also takes his gnarly-but-trippy version of dubstep to events like Electric Forest, where he'll play on the same bill as jam bands like String Cheese Incident.
(2) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(3) Bowie broke the silence in 2013 with The Next Day , a gnarly rock album spitting anger at warmongers, zombie celebrities and The Reaper with equal venom, as he prepares to “stumble to the graveyard and lay down by my parents”, adding archly, “just remember duckies, everybody gets got”.
(4) 9.59am GMT “This slopestyle is , as the kids say, gnarly,” says Guy Hornsby.
(5) Singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Pat Carney are sitting side by side in a booth, scoffing cheeseburgers while appreciating the gathering of gnarly boozers at the jukebox in the corner.
(6) Pursuing his father's Italian roots he lived there for three years learning to cook, and the food he serves - a lot of offal, sweet and sour sauces for meats, gnarly rustic pasta dishes - is, he says, the antithesis of the ersatz version of Italian served in New York's old-fashioned red-sauce restaurants.
(7) Replacement of the signal recognition particle (SRP) 7S gene (SCR1) on a replicating plasmid with scr1-1 (G to A at 129 and A to T at 131 in the consensus sequence -GNAR- in the loop of domain III) resulted in temperature sensitivity for growth of cells in which both chromosomal SRP 7S RNA genes were deleted.
(8) They are primary RNA binding proteins, recognize RNA tetranucleotide loops with a GNAR consensus motif, and require a helical region located adjacent to the tetraloop.
(9) This old chestnut has raised its gnarly weather-beaten head more than once since our plea for seasonally themed questions.
(10) Grid reference: 51.3001, 1.1513 Photograph: www.wildswimming.com Kailpot Crag, Ullswater, Lake District Ullswater is one of the most popular and beautiful lakes in the Lake District, but to escape the crowds head for this high, gnarly crag.
(11) "Some gnarly jocks were trying to hump up on the girls," says Korine.
(12) Shoppers could and do argue that their waste is spurred by supermarket offers; farmers could and do argue that their waste is caused by factors outside their control, such as: "I cannot eat this parsnip because it looks like the gnarly hand of a wizard."
(13) Stay sick, my friends, no seriously, I'm liveblogging today with a pretty gnarly cold, but I also promise to make it through all of this game.
(14) He is also the only sound editor the Coen Brothers work with, which means that he is the person responsible for that gnarly wood chipper noise in Fargo, the peel of wallpaper in Barton Fink, the resonance of The Dude’s bowling ball in The Big Lebowski and the absolutely chilling crinkle of Javier Bardem’s gum wrapper in No Country for Old Men.
(15) "It's just so… gnarly," he tells the team in the footage from that time.
(16) We thought if we both get pregnant, well, that's a bit gnarly, but we can ride it out.
(17) 11.02am GMT “On the more, er ... gnarly events, the commentary should go the full WWE,” says Gary Naylor.
(18) I'd say to Russell, 'Oh try this…'" The turning point was when she nailed a gnarly Venetian staple called baccalà mantecato .
(19) Click here to watch There was a notable absence of rock at this year's Grammys, but thankfully Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor took centre stage for the gnarly closer, performing Copy of A from his 2013 album Hesitation Marks, joined on stage by Fleetwood Mac's Lindsey Buckingham, Dave Grohl and Josh Homme.
(20) The upstairs rooms have sweeping views of the dense urban environment, while the pretty garden of potted flowers and gnarly old trees provides a welcome escape from it.
Nasty
Definition:
(superl.) Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.
(superl.) Characterized by obcenity; indecent; indelicate; gross; filthy.
Example Sentences:
(1) How does it stack up against the competition – and are there any nasties in the small print?
(2) Admirably, Clinton kept her cool throughout, particularly Trump when spoke over her to call her “such a nasty woman”.
(3) He wanted to stay on longer than the traditional retirement age but became involved in a nasty spat with the then-chairman, Peter Sutherland.
(4) It is the latest attack on the government from the Hungarian economist, whose previous criticism of David Cameron's "nasty" looking restrictions on benefits for foreigners led the angry prime minister to lodge a formal complaint.
(5) Protesters waved banners with slogans such as “Special relationship, just say no” and “Nasty women unite”.
(6) The examples I have quoted are the tip of a very large and very nasty iceberg.
(7) In short, it is alleged that under his rule Sri Lanka is becoming a nasty, authoritarian quasi-rogue banana republic.
(8) Patterson agrees that it’s all much more controlled now, but she also wonders whether at times the media can be too negative, doomy, and sometimes downright nasty.
(9) And I’m sorry, that will come before any internal party-political issue and I think I should be able to adopt that position without being attacked, without being subject to a nasty troll-form of politics.” On Tuesday the prime minister, David Cameron, promised to publish a comprehensive strategy on Syria in the form of a written response to a report by the foreign affairs select committee, which concluded that the government had failed to make the case for extending airstrikes.
(10) Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world’s leading centre of Islamic learning, called on Muslims to “ignore the nasty frivolity” of the latest edition.
(11) He was followed by Theresa May, who 13 years ago had warned that many voters thought the Conservatives were the “nasty party”, but who now pledged to clamp down on the rights of asylum seekers, and renewed her commitment to cut net migration to below 100,000 in terms so harsh that she was widely condemned even by her allies.
(12) I think it probably gave me a sense of self and self-protection that has been very useful, and I possibly have had less nasty moments than a lot of other women.
(13) Dr Rosemary Gillespie was the object of a “nasty, vindictive and sustained campaign of bullying” from her second day in the job at the UK’s biggest HIV charity, the tribunal heard.
(14) It had a “flat, nasty” ring to it, she says, which she has since “analysed like a Rubik’s cube; I have turned it every which way.
(15) Updated at 2.10pm BST 1.47pm BST Over to America, where the latest productivity figures confirm that the US economy took a nasty jolt over the winter, when bad weather gripped the country.
(16) It doesn't have to be bloody, it doesn't have to be nasty, but it does have to be fought."
(17) That was the one surprise in the budget – apart from the fine print of the nasties.
(18) Because the nastiness on our doorstep has piled too high for too long, and I just want to get out of the house.
(19) Southampton 3-0 Vitesse | Europa League third qualifying round match report Read more Even more damagingly for West Ham, they lost Enner Valencia to a potentially nasty knee injury in the first half after he caught his leg in the turf.
(20) They orginally had lofty ambitions of talking about the economy but since they have lost that argument so catastrophically, they have reached for the Ukip playbook to create fictitious stories to scare people about immigrants and release video nasties about Turkish people”.