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gnarly
[ nahr-lee ]
adjective
- twisted with or as if with gnarls or knots; gnarled:
long and gnarly fingers.
- Slang. distasteful or distressing; offensive; gross:
a comic noted for his gnarly humor.
- Slang. excellent; wonderful:
The live album has some gnarly guitar riffs and sweet bass lines.
- Slang. difficult or dangerous:
the gnarly surf.
gnarly
/ ˈnɑːlɪ /
Other Words From
- gnarli·ness noun
Example Sentences
Expect anything from firm, packed roads to gnarly switchbacks on narrow trails.
Backpackers can take a short but gnarly hike down steep, unmaintained routes to camp by the Gunnison River in almost total solitude.
Pedaling around with one wheel in the air won’t help you win a race or bomb a gnarly descent.
Find out why Anthony Bourdain’s boeuf bourguignon is one of our most popular recipes everThere is remarkable nuance and variety beneath those gnarly exteriors — a realm of flavor that this one-pot chicken dinner unearths beautifully.
The gnarly seed that sprouts into a soft green thing and the sapling that becomes a behemoth, understandably, catch our eye.
Well the idea of “release” and infanticide and suggestions of eliminating the imperfect is pretty gnarly, if you think about it.
A helicopter hovered overhead, catching every second of the gnarly ride.
Work, especially, sees you getting kinks out of gnarly systems and operations.
Charred palm trees loomed over the road like gnarly fingers up through the ground.
Her neck, far too liberally exhibited, resembled nothing so much as the stem of an ill-conditioned, gnarly young olive tree.
They were twisted and gnarly, and with scarcely the semblance of the full meaty calf such as graces your leg and mine.
He pulled the face off one of them, literally pulled it off with those gnarly fingers of his and those tremendous muscles.
And as he peers he crooks one monstrous leg and with his gnarly toes scratches himself on the stomach.
Some gnarly apple which I pick up in the road reminds me by its fragrance of all the wealth of Pomona.
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