Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe.
Used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots.
Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.
Tangled in knots or snarls.
1 In his long, knotty fingers he carried a copy of the Signal.
2 It was full of knotty points requiring deep thinking, and the Hon.
3 Its bark is more rough and knotty than that of the palm-tree.
4 Linking the knotty ribbons, I used six Osmanthus x burkwoodii topiary balls.
5 He held his knotty hands motionless over the flame of his lamp.
6 He passed a knotty hand through his shock of red whiskers absently.
7 The priest pointed to his own breast with a long knotty finger.
8 Powerful books, dealing with knotty problems, and positive in their religious teaching.
9 She scrunched up her face as though thinking through a knotty problem.
10 It was proving a knotty problem, not to say an insoluble one.
11 A good shampoo and conditioner will keep the hair from getting knotty !
12 She's the sort of knotty , solid human thing that I should love.
13 Swollen knees, and knotty fingers, a loathing stomach, and a dizzy head.
14 One, after a long stoppage of urine, voided a knotty barley straw.
15 The kitchen was rimmed by knotty pine cabinets fitted with wrought-iron hardware.
16 Now drop all this knotty business, be joyous, hurry, and get ready.
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