(superl.) Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
(superl.) Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.
(superl.) Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Andrew Romano, Newsweek How would these eloquent know-it-alls – these brainiacs bent on "speaking truth to stupid" – untangle the knotty threads of information that make actual breaking news so difficult to sort out?
(2) It originally quoted Kathryn Bigelow as saying "naughty subjects" rather than "knotty subjects"
(3) For example, 1 group, "knotty amacrine cells," has small cell bodies and a profusion of small, varicose, intertwined processes that span up to 30 microns and are essentially monostratified, but each of the 3 types ends in different strata.
(4) He has friendly, wide-set eyes, a burst of knotty dreadlocks and a gnarled scar just below his jaw, from when he fell from a low wire as a child and impaled himself on the protruding end of a metal coil.
(5) She was a sane voice that could be relied upon to help them make sense of the knotty complications of their personal, sexual lives.
(6) Eight cases were reported in order to elucidate the important role of electron microscopy (EM) played in diagnosis of knotty tumors.
(7) What do you think they can buy for that?” Kasich also raised the other knotty problem that is causing divisions within the Republican party: preexisting conditions.
(8) The A1 cells are small axonless neurons with knotty and dense dendritic trees.
(9) This is potentially a knotty problem, but a few points seem to suggest that Wales's concerns are overdone.
(10) Bloomberg Associates, as he is calling his private consultancy, will be what the New York Times has called an “urban SWAT team” that will be called in by struggling cities to help solve their knotty problems absolutely free of charge.
(11) Updated at 9.37pm BST 8.47pm BST A novel Peace Prize idea This is interesting - European leaders have apparently been considering the knotty problem of who should pick up the Nobel Peace Prize in December.
(12) There is a knotty ethical problem underlying such arguments.
(13) Subjects ranged from the English civil war in The Staffordshire Rebels (1965) and local railways in The Knotty (1966) to the audience's second world war memories in Hands Up!
(14) This knotty and discomforting genealogy that binds Englishness to empire and slavery and their fractious legacies of racism and inequality seems to be too thought-provoking for Gove's deeply conservative vision of English literature.
(15) But it would help his cause, the lawyer argued, by addressing several of the knotty issues related to his future.
(16) Every time a party has looked at this problem, it’s been too knotty to unpick and it has given up.
(17) What distinguishes this recession from those we have seen before is one particularly knotty fact: unemployment has increased a good deal more than employment has fallen.
(18) Only a better understanding of their pathogenesis, and of how the glomerulus normally retains plasma protein, will solve this knotty problem.
(19) The prospect of Erdoğan unbound suggests a number of other knotty problems may become more intractable.
(20) Canary Wharf – modernist, faceless, towering – houses the mighty investment banks; the City – quirky, crowded, knotty, historic – has the brokers, insurers and ancillary services; Mayfair – discreet, stylish, cosmopolitan – is home to the hedge funds and private equity companies.