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synonyms for gnarly

  • hairy
  • boss
  • finest
  • great
  • keen
  • magnificent
  • marvelous
  • neat
  • nifty
  • sensational
  • superb
  • swell
  • wonderful
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How to use gnarly in a sentence

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Pedaling around with one wheel in the air won’t help you win a race or bomb a gnarly descent.
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Find out why Anthony Bourdain’s boeuf bourguignon is one of our most popular recipes everThere is remarkable nuance and variety beneath those gnarly exteriors — a realm of flavor that this one-pot chicken dinner unearths beautifully.
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The gnarly seed that sprouts into a soft green thing and the sapling that becomes a behemoth, understandably, catch our eye.
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Many of the gnarly, systemic issues underlying such shootings persist and have motivated millions of Americans to protest in the streets of cities across the country in recent months.
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Her neck, far too liberally exhibited, resembled nothing so much as the stem of an ill-conditioned, gnarly young olive tree.
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They were twisted and gnarly, and with scarcely the semblance of the full meaty calf such as graces your leg and mine.
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He pulled the face off one of them, literally pulled it off with those gnarly fingers of his and those tremendous muscles.
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And as he peers he crooks one monstrous leg and with his gnarly toes scratches himself on the stomach.
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