Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tangled; complicated.
- Fretful; discontented; obstinate.
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- adjective
tangled ,entangled
Etymologies
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Examples
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To part from Devlin is hard as Nugent knew, to leave the clean tanglesome one lushier than its neighbour enfranchisable fields but let your ghost have no grievance.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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The view was less broken and there were glimpses of dry knolls in the swamp and verdure not so noxious and tanglesome.
Blackbeard: Buccaneer Ralph Delahaye Paine 1898
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Still another part of it was a long stretch of low grape-vines, which were tanglesome and troublesome, and which we took to be brambles.
The Innocents Abroad — Volume 04 Mark Twain 1872
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Still another part of it was a long stretch of low grape-vines, which were tanglesome and troublesome, and which we took to be brambles.
The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1872
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