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  • adjective Alternative form of gnarly.

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Examples

  • One gnarley side effect of chemotherapy is that it can decrease the number of neutrophils a type of blood cell needed to fight infection ... bad, Chemo, bad!

    Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Post-Chemotherapy and Neulesta Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011

  • One gnarley side effect of chemotherapy is that it can decrease the number of neutrophils a type of blood cell needed to fight infection ... bad, Chemo, bad!

    Hollye Harrington Jacobs: Post-Chemotherapy and Neulesta Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011

  • Those appendages look like my grandmother's gnarley feet cradling a--yes, a red bell pepper.

    The Twilight of Our Discontent Jen 2009

  • It was not like surfing a hurricane like in the movies, but it was big enough to scare me on occasion, and big enough to have some very excitingly gnarley and fast rides!

    'Hospital' 2008

  • OK- there's the thing. first- there is obviously something gnarley about how this 'thing' impacts human beings, because of the suits. there are ocviously gnarley smaller creaters, because there are pcitres of them holding a door closed. the monster MAY not be human because if there were i don't see why there would be dead bodies in the cairage. but i guess i'm assuming its a zombie situation.

    Cloverfield Trailer First Hand Look Dennis 2007

  • A gnarley problem, but as has been mentioned, most younger mexicans I know just consider it part of the struggle to be able to work in the US.

    We all know folks wanting to go north 2004

  • “Do you girls know ANY adjectives other than ‘rad’, ‘gnarley’, and ‘awesome’?”

    Who's a dork? It's ME!~ It's ME!!! barbylon 2002

  • “Do you girls know ANY adjectives other than ‘rad’, ‘gnarley’, and ‘awesome’?”

    Who's a dork? It's ME!~ It's ME!!! barbylon 2002

  • I will never again use the words brah or gnarley, as many times in a day as I have

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010

  • Functional DSLs can yield pretty gnarley error mes ...

    Planet TW 2009

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