Nyjah Huston

I grew up very strict vegan. My dad didn't allow me or any of my siblings to eat any meat, no cheese, no candy even. He was super strict about that sort of stuff. I think that's one of the reasons I manage to be so healthy and take all these gnarly slams without breaking any bones: I think the main thing is being raised without drinking any soda.

American Athlete

Wesley Morris

Savage' is a trait that might get you into business school or retweeted 10,000 times. It's what a kid might say after somebody does something awesome or gnarly or fierce: 'Oh, that's savage!' It's the skate park. It's the high-school cafeteria. It's the YouTube comments section.

American Critic

Brooke Burke

I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but its got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.

American Model

Dylan Moran

I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what that tells you. People who look like... they're waiting for a sandwich that's never going to come. I don't know what's wrong with me.

Irish Comedian

Dolores O'Riordan

You get older and come to the conclusion that it's a great gig making music. Even if you turn into an old gnarly fart, no one cares what you look like if you write good songs - the only gig is to sing well and perform.

Irish Musician

Charlie Sheen

What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.

American Actor

Paolo Bacigalupi

Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.

American Writer

Rudy Rucker

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.

American Scientist

CM Punk

I'm going to be that gnarly guy that gets in somebody's face and makes it ugly. I'm a bit of a grinder.

Jacob Collier

I think that the journey of self to truth is always kind of a gnarly one.

English Musician

Often used in extreme sports or tech industries to describe challenging scenarios.

Cultural Context

Not usually used in formal settings. Stick to casual conversations.

Informal Usage

Implies a sense of dread or frustration when facing a problem.

Negative Connotation

Perfect for describing something that's uneven or rugged in appearance.

Visual Description

While often referring to age or wear, it can imply character or resilience.

Not Always Negative

Use it for describing tactile qualities that are irregular or rough.

Physical Texture

In some contexts, it's a compliment meaning something is extraordinarily good.

Positive Praise

Popular among younger people, especially in sporting or music scenes.

Youthful Slang

Originating from surf culture, it's still often used in beach/surf contexts.

Surfer Heritage

 the carpenter who had cut his fingers off and actually generously come out to help us and he said me I don't think you should go i first of all you don't know what you're getting yourself into sedan is gnarly and you are gonna be a big tall bald shining target walking

Making the impossible...

 with that yeah just take a little slice off here see what that looks like before Carl will make any deal he needs to inspect the merchandise yeah that'll be nice or burl isn't is an unusual growth on a tree so they're growing with gnarly beautiful grains and once you

A Visit to the Leather...

 And he was learning how, when you have a big old gnarly problem, sometimes the solution is to slice it into smaller problems. That's what we do for most problems -- in math, in physics, even in social policy -- we slice them into smaller, more manageable problems.

Lessons from death row...

 Dragon. So here's a dinosaur that has spikes sticking out of its head, no dome and gnarly stuff on its nose. Nobody noticed the gnarly stuff sort of looked alike. But they did look at these three and they said, "These are three different dinosaurs,

Jack Horner: Shape-shifti...

 socotra's dry rocky landscape and from it grows something that looks like a gnarly pine tree and a mushroom had a baby it has a twisted brown trunk standing about as tall as a person and at the top of this trunk intertwined branches grow up and out

Why War Zones Need...

 The bacteria in my research are not genetically modified frankenbugs. These are naturally occurring bacteria that have simply adapted to their plastic-polluted environment and evolved the incredibly gnarly ability to eat PET plastic.

These bacteria eat...

 no dome and gnarly stuff on its nose nobody noticed that gnarly stuff sort of looked alike but but they did look at these three and they said these are three different dinosaurs and Draco Rex is probably the most primitive of them

Shape-shifting dinosaurs...

 get to the top sometimes it's hard to believe it like what I'm still going where is the top of this thing just seems like they're never-ending you get into the branches and limbs and you get to see how really big and gnarly and

360° Climbing Giants PIPE...

 could just go like sideline of the waterfall I mean this looks gnarly to me kasha as one of the world's elite ski Mountaineers with numerous first descents kasha plots a daring path with

Wet and Wild PIPE Ultimate...

 one that I controlled, that I steered, that I gave life to. But the shooting day would end, and I'd return to my gnarly, awkward self.

Gnarly

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