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are knotty
adjective
Full of knots.
Exact(13)
Those two questions are knotty ones.
These are knotty, unanswerable questions.
Walls and ceiling are knotty pine with rows of hanging copper lanterns.
There are knotty pine vaulted ceilings, a deck, two bathrooms, a deep-water dock and an unfinished basement with windows.
They might have considered rescheduling some version of Friday's lineup for Monday, though touring schedules, of course, are knotty at this time of year.
But the emotions here are knotty and complex, and things get resolved with all the festivity of an eggnog laced with vinegar.
Similar(45)
The situation is knotty, complicated and all too familiar.
Each of these is knotty enough to scupper the event on its own.
The breath control helped, the man who'd performed said; the language was knotty, but mastering it took patience.
Ascribing responsibility here can be knotty, owing to the wide range of actors involved in oil production.
Academic writing and research may be knotty and strange, remote and insular, technical and specialized, forbidding and clannish — but that's because academia has become that way, too.
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