tangle

The process was a maddening tangle of unreliable tracking, delays, and confusion, the family member said.

The tangle of enormous fake diamonds resting on top of her cleavage sparkles at every flashbulb.

It was litigation as entertainment—a farcical tangle of events that titillated a ready, willing, and able country.

Pettet threw his head back and laughed as he recounted his tangle with the police.

The profession remains a knotty tangle of influences and causations and aggravations and insurers.

You only misunderstand each other, and with a little good will on both sides you can easily get out of your tangle.'

She went and stood at an open window and looked out upon the deep tangle of the garden below.

I saw three kinds of sea-tangle, but could only obtain a specimen of one, resembling that which I had seen in 44° South lat.

George jerked his peaked cap from his head, revealing a tangle of unkempt red hair.

The orchard ran down a slope of perhaps half an acre to the ferny tangle of the brook bed.