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knotty
adjective
tangled in knots or snarls
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ˈnɒti
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adjective
tangled in knots or snarls
“a mass of knotted string”
adjective
making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
“a baffling problem”
adjective
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
“the Byzantine tax structure”
adjective
used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
“gnarled and knotted hands”
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a mass of knotted string
snarled thread
a baffling problem
I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
a problematic situation at home
the Byzantine tax structure
Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship
convoluted legal language
convoluted reasoning
the plot was too involved
gnarled and knotted hands
a knobbed stick
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