(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.
Snarled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Snarl
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) When Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Midan Giza, a traffic-snarled interchange on the west bank of the Nile, for Friday prayers, he saw a graphic illustration of Egypt under President Hosni Mubarak: neat rows of police and plainclothes security officers lining the streets to maintain calm.
(3) But to enjoy it like a local, give the tourist-tat main road a miss and dive into the snarl of side streets, where wheeler-dealers hawk everything from rusty doorknobs to 17th-century art.
(4) A training exercise from 2006 had created the scenario of a car bomb attack on government buildings but a recommendation to close the roads around the central district had been snarled up in bureaucracy for five years, said the report.
(5) Planning permission for the laboratory was rejected twice by South Cambridgeshire district council on the grounds that protests by animal rights campaigners outside the facility would snarl up traffic and could become a nuisance to local residents.
(6) The girl who did that is an intern, she’s working for free,” she snarled.
(7) "But we do not want to snarl up the government's legislative programme on Lords reform.
(8) Traffic in New York snarls up under the sheer weight of backed-up, blacked-out limousines transporting the stressed-out bankers.
(9) Documents released on Saturday appear to show that officials loyal to Christie went to elaborate lengths to obscure the true motivation for the snarl-up by trying to make it appear to be part of a traffic flow study.
(10) Whether villainous or heroic, romantic or sly, funny or frightening, he put that snarl to good use alongside his dark-brown voice and melancholy features in a wide range of parts.
(11) Lampard was booked for a lunge on Modric while sniping and snarling at the officials was a constant theme.
(12) The Spaniard wins a free-kick, prompting Schweinsteiger to snarl menacingly in his ear.
(13) According to those who have dealt with him, he is far from a snarling Rottweiler.
(14) The trolling on my Twitter account has been particularly heavy this week, with various instructions to “fuck myself” as well as the snarling insistence that I attend a gathering of the KKK.
(15) Even ignoring the rather pathetic complaint submitted by a steward for what seemed an innocuous incident in the mouth of the tunnel late on here, this was another display that demonstrated too much snarl and not enough bite.
(16) A solo soul set, with Prince at a piano emitting a seamless flow of yips, whoops, snarls and moans of finely turned ecstasy.
(17) RSL meanwhile left the field snarling — Beckerman picking up a yellow as he argued with the referee on the way to the tunnel.They only had themselves to blame after lacking urgency in the first half.
(18) As it's one of those cities where honking in traffic is recreation, I wait for a snarl of cars to pass before asking a food stall attendant how he thinks the place has changed.
(19) Duterte called Pope Francis a “son of a whore” for snarling up Manila traffic earlier this year when he visited the country.
(20) False.” 2 Legitimate news organisations that regurgitate stories without checking, such as the $200 Bill Clinton haircut on Air Force One which supposedly snarled air traffic at LAX in 1993.