Knottily

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a knotty way.

    "He examines the implications of a doubly incestuous bloodline (which is not new speculation and is knottily complicated: it makes Adolf “a First-Degree Incestuary One Step Removed.”)"

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"He examines the implications of a doubly incestuous bloodline (which is not new speculation and is knottily complicated: it makes Adolf “a First-Degree Incestuary One Step Removed.”)"

Etymology

From knotty + -ly.

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