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Meanings of knotty in английском
Making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe.
Синонимы
Examples for "tough"
Examples for "tough"
1
But tough conditions could continue for longer in some regions, he said.
2
The Hungarian parliament last week passed tough new legislation on illegal immigrants.
3
However, the rest of the national daily market suffered a tough October.
4
Talk to the public information officer. Abrams' voice belied his tough talk.
5
They have responded to the tough sugar market conditions in different ways.
1
Extra profit from two companies selling each others' products often proves elusive.
2
Aims: Effective prevention of recurrent pericarditis remains an important yet elusive goal.
3
However, a sale has proven elusive amid cost and technology transfer issues.
4
Exactly where Megrahi fits into the elusive story is not absolutely clear.
5
The neural basis for the addictive nature of benzodiazepines, however, remains elusive.
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However, compliance with weekly intake might be problematic outside a research programme.
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He has been given a number of problematic areas to deal with.
3
Indeed it's an area where simplistic solutions can be problematic, she said.
4
Nannoconus An example of stratigraphically useful fossils although their identification remains problematic.
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However, overhauls to the U.S. healthcare industry make such an addition problematic.
1
Indonesia has suffered a surge in human cases this year, baffling officials.
2
However Early Childhood Council CEO Peter Reynolds said the decision was baffling.
3
Except, of course, my recent baffling experiences in New York, my confusion.
4
Why government ministers need super fancy cars is also a bit baffling.
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The former foreign secretary's reputation as a rousing prose stylist remains baffling.
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But people warned that wooden floors were problematical if not done right.
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The effect of stammering or stuttering upon the physical structure is problematical.
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Getting there and doing something with the information might be problematical, though.
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Immediate comfort, however, getting the better of problematical risk, I went in.
5
Whether or not I shall return to the mother planet is problematical.
Usage of knotty in английском
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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.
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He held his knotty hands motionless over the flame of his lamp.
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He passed a knotty hand through his shock of red whiskers absently.
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The priest pointed to his own breast with a long knotty finger.
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Powerful books, dealing with knotty problems, and positive in their religious teaching.
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She scrunched up her face as though thinking through a knotty problem.
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It was proving a knotty problem, not to say an insoluble one.
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A good shampoo and conditioner will keep the hair from getting knotty!
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She's the sort of knotty, solid human thing that I should love.
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Swollen knees, and knotty fingers, a loathing stomach, and a dizzy head.
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One, after a long stoppage of urine, voided a knotty barley straw.
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The kitchen was rimmed by knotty pine cabinets fitted with wrought-iron hardware.
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Now drop all this knotty business, be joyous, hurry, and get ready.
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Knotty through the time
Knotty across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common