knotty
adjective
knottiness
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a word derived from
knotty.
Example Sentences
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Duplicated and rearranged genes can account for some of this knottiness, Renner explains, as can interbreeding among these diverging plants.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 23, 2024
As with most geniuses, he was complicated, and “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s long-in-the-works biopic, hones in on that knottiness in its focus on Bernstein’s marriage to Chilean-born actress Felicia Montealegre.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
Muldoon’s high-profile side gigs, his midcareer transatlantic move, his increasing knottiness and self-reflexivity: All of the above has obscured, for American readers, the achievements and history of Muldoon the poet.
From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2016
It does a vastly better job – carried by the performers – of dwelling on loss, and lines like “Nobody really cares except the sufferers,” have resonance that transcends the play’s knottiness.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2014
Who can disentangle that twisted and intricate knottiness?
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
