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US
/ˈnɑɹɫi/
]
[ UK /nˈɑːli/ ]
[ UK /nˈɑːli/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or knots
gnarled and knotted hands
a knobbed stick
How To Use gnarly In A Sentence
- The tree itself had been small and gnarly, withered and twisted like the arthritic seizure of an old man.
- Tucked away in the forest, and only accessible to those with local knowledge, its old contorted paperbark trees exhibited gnarly branches, trunks and burls.
- Right now, a charming brunette in baggy khakis is wrestling with a gnarly problem.
- We have Wyrdsmiths last night and I get kind of psyched about tackling some kind of serious revision of RESURRECTION CODE (which has been, for some reason, a ddeply gnarly book for me to write,) and Mason's sniffles morph into a hacking cough and a full-blown cold ... so he has to stay home for school today, effectively munching all my writing time. Day in the Life of an Idiot
- Cramps, of course, can be uncomfortable and somewhat gnarly.
- The out of place plushie speaks of a summer love and heart break at Christmas, the gnarly key fob is from a friend who drove into a bridge abutment, and the plastic dog dish in a house with no dogs speaks of the dog that ran away at the cottage. Astrology and the Kitchen
- ‘You're supposed to be gnarly rockers, you're not supposed to sing happy birthday’ he mocks, but secretly you know he's pleased.
- The night before the trials, he shaved a gnarly goatee off his chin.
- The two things you need to know about Steve Roche, are that he gets things done and he does bizarre gnarly and difficult tricks on a skateboard.
- Grob was giddy as hell up there, because the gnarly floes offered a rare challenge to a jaded ice-breaker.