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Meanings of knotty in английском

Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe.

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Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots.

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Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.

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Tangled in knots or snarls.

Usage of knotty in английском
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In his long, knotty fingers he carried a copy of the Signal.
The Old Wives' Tale
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It was full of knotty points requiring deep thinking, and the Hon.
Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks
3
Its bark is more rough and knotty than that of the palm-tree.
The History of Louisiana, Or of the Western Parts of Virginia an...
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Linking the knotty ribbons, I used six Osmanthus x burkwoodii topiary balls.
The Guardian
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He held his knotty hands motionless over the flame of his lamp.
The Eternal Maiden
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He passed a knotty hand through his shock of red whiskers absently.
Where the Trail Divides
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The priest pointed to his own breast with a long knotty finger.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Italian
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Powerful books, dealing with knotty problems, and positive in their religious teaching.
The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6
9
She scrunched up her face as though thinking through a knotty problem.
The story of edgar sawtelle
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It was proving a knotty problem, not to say an insoluble one.
Empire Builders
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A good shampoo and conditioner will keep the hair from getting knotty!
Ebony
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She's the sort of knotty, solid human thing that I should love.
The Red Planet
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Swollen knees, and knotty fingers, a loathing stomach, and a dizzy head.
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1
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One, after a long stoppage of urine, voided a knotty barley straw.
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
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The kitchen was rimmed by knotty pine cabinets fitted with wrought-iron hardware.
Bones Are Forever
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Now drop all this knotty business, be joyous, hurry, and get ready.
The Girl Scout Pioneers; Or, Winning the First B. C.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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