Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Covered with tangle or seaweed.
- Knotted; intertwined; intricate; snarly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Entangled; intricate.
- adjective Covered with tangle, or seaweed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Entangled ;intricate . - adjective Covered with
tangle , orseaweed .
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Examples
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It's all downhill after that, what with the plastic, tangly vine, and the shiny...leaning...blobs...
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But life rarely takes the easy route – just look at our general election, wot a twisty tangly thing its become.
Chung Kuo Vol 1: Son of Heaven update « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2010
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The business that was revealed at the Helms store was a tangly, multifaceted thing, and although the Helms brothers would sell supplies to each of the moonshining groups that showed up at the store, it would be impossible to prove that those moonshiners were all involved in a conspiracy together.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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The business that was revealed at the Helms store was a tangly, multifaceted thing, and although the Helms brothers would sell supplies to each of the moonshining groups that showed up at the store, it would be impossible to prove that those moonshiners were all involved in a conspiracy together.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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The business that was revealed at the Helms store was a tangly, multifaceted thing, and although the Helms brothers would sell supplies to each of the moonshining groups that showed up at the store, it would be impossible to prove that those moonshiners were all involved in a conspiracy together.
CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010
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Working from opposite ends of a centerpull ball has the benefit of, well, one ball...but it's a bit tangly.
Attack of the Socktopus!* Presents 2009
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Over supper, while the music played, he would tell them what he'd seen: tangly forests thick with vines; villages inhabited by as many dogs and pecking chickens as people; groups of locals with hardly any clothes on.
Land Divers Messud, Claire 2009
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And while we were cuddling in bed this morning, I discovered that the Dwarf had managed to untangle the tangly bits under his chin.
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They are particularly useful if your desk is freestanding in the workspace and the otherwise unmanaged wires would form a tangly mess.
Archive 2008-08-01 lavardera 2008
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They are particularly useful if your desk is freestanding in the workspace and the otherwise unmanaged wires would form a tangly mess.
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