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from The Century Dictionary.
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gnarly .
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Examples
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These guys were very willing to take of their shirts so I had plenty of exposed flesh to put knarly wounds and gore make-up on for my extravagant death scenes.
Interview with Filmmaker and Special FX Artist Joe Castro 2010
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It's so hard because it's such a cool idea and I love characters that are just knarly, who aren't afraid to go up against anything or anyone and win most of the time.
StampReview | The Last Wish Bryce L. 2010
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So you can say you are "tired" and I shouldn't post, but that's a weak excuse to let HER hi-jack your blog with some pretty knarly stuff that has NOTHING to do with McIntyre of KFI or ANY of the other topics.
McIntyre on KFI? 2009
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Page 169 pines, rise like slender columns, and are crowned with a tuft of knarly limbs and long, bristly leaves, through which the breezes murmur with a monotonous sound, much like that of falling waters, or waves breaking on a beach.
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The tall, straight, branchless trunks of the scattered pines, rise like slender columns, and are crowned with a tuft of knarly limbs and long, bristly leaves, through which the breezes murmur with a monotonous sound, much like that of falling waters, or waves breaking on a beach.
The White Slave or Memoirs of a Fugitive Hildreth, Richard 1852
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The tall, straight, branchless trunks of the scattered pines, rise like slender columns, and are crowned with a tuft of knarly limbs and long, bristly leaves, through which the breezes murmur with a monotonous sound, much like that of falling waters, or waves breaking on a beach.
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As the giant stooped and stretched out his long, hairy arm with its knarly hand and talon-like fingers Elvis, without even thinking about it, curled his tail high over his head and let blast with a huge squirt of Stink!!!!!
p2pnet news 2010
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It was full of horrible taffeta and knarly make-up.
fresnobeehive.com 2009
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It was full of horrible taffeta and knarly make-up.
fresnobeehive.com 2009
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Its flesh is the colour of a Yukon Gold, but its skin is of a beetroot shade and it is very knarly.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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