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Synonyms for knotty

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Synonyms for knotty

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Synonyms for knotty

making great mental demands

used of old persons or old trees

highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

tangled in knots or snarls

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The knottiest white-collar criminal case in recent memory should finally go to trial next month, but only half of the original defendants will face the jury.
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They have sought to rethink some of the knottiest passages in wholly new ways, based in part on their analysis of the structure of the charter, and when their work is complete it may throw new light on some of these.
None of today's knottiest business challenges throughout the vast and cumbersome mortgage industry would be remotely solvable without technology.
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Having understood the failure to modernize their country and its severe repercussions on their ancestors, Ethiopians are today financing the GERD, reiterating the late Prime Minister's remark: "we not only have a plan, but we also have the capacity to assert our rights." They are also committed to end one of the knottiest ironies of the world, as the Wall Street Journal put, "the land that feeds the Nile is unable to feed itself." What Egypt needs to do is to reinvent its foreign policy direction towards the Nile abandoning its interest to preserve the needs of the old state institutions implanted by British and Ottoman rule.
They agreed that the Snowden story illustrates some of the knottiest issues with which newspapers grapple: possible prosecution under the Espionage Act and concerns about compromising national security.
Obama with one of the knottiest foreign-policy problems of his presidency.
Whenever competitive forces gain ascendancy over inertia, technology and product development get closer to the "bleeding edges." That is where engineers encounter the knottiest challenges bound up with the biggest opportunities.
Those six lines are merely the knottiest part of a strange text.