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knotty

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For anyone looking to dive into the big, knotty history of one of the most iconic states, this book is well worth the time.

The profession remains a knotty tangle of influences and causations and aggravations and insurers.

Think of it merely as another knotty problem of logistics to be solved.

Our nicely worked out system for supplying the troops has in a moment been tangled up into a hundred knotty problems.

The Cuban debts and the future of the Philippines were really the knotty points in the entire debate.

De Robeck and Keyes came over from the Triad to unravel knotty points.

His envoys had proposed to refer the knotty point to the decision of His Holiness; but 'this they absolutely declined.'

Landy Spencer drummed his knotty fingers on the armchair and looked thoughtfully at the old Nestor seated at his fireside.

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On this page you'll find 70 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to knotty, such as: complicated, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling, sticky, and thorny.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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