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Etymology

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knotty +‎ -ly

Adverb

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knottily (comparative more knottily, superlative most knottily)

  1. In a knotty way.
    • 2007 January 19, Janet Maslin, “Putting Hitler on the Couch, and Finding Bees”, in New York Times[1]:
      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.”)