knotty

How To Use knotty In A Sentence

• Even more seriously, this is a play full of the most intricate, knotty, compacted language.
• Presently, piglet early weaning diarrhea is a knotty disease in most pig farm.
• The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor. Main Street
• This is a very knotty question; it is like asking how far a dropsical man may be punctured without his dying under the operation; this depends on the prudence of the physician. A Philosophical Dictionary
• It remains a casual place, more knotty pine than mahogany - even though for generations it has been a second home for many Hollywood stars who first discovered it when they came up for filming.
• Construction Common, Deck Common, Merchantable Heart and Merchantable are knotty garden grades of redwood and offer a colorful mix of sapwood and heartwood.
• Family businesses present an especially knotty problem because in those companies, power is often wielded by owners wedded to the past.
• She really didn't understand how her hair got so knotty.
• It's startling, difficult and rewarding: sometimes knotty with reference and allusion, sometimes woolly and vague.
• You describe the abortion issue as a "knotty" question. ABP News