ropy

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Examples of ropy

  • He tried to save a ropy secondary bank, which is now called a hedge fund, and reduced interest rates three times in two weeks.

  • Some of the piers are getting pretty ropy.

  • What is unbelievable today is the sheer hypocrisy of a party that has such a catalogue of ropy practices in local government.

  • I had to live in pretty ropy conditions for several years and my priority was probably a new carpet rather than energy efficiency.

  • A patent in isolation is, as a rule, a rather ropy affair.

  • Those of us who represent rural or semi-rural constituencies know that quite a lot of the housing stock there is in a pretty ropy condition.

  • He has got off to a slightly ropy start.

  • That was a rather ropy question.

  • Ropy pahoehoe lava flows predominate over blocky aa lava flows, breccias, and tuffs, attesting to a fluid and effusive character for the volcanism.

  • Phoehoe lava is recognized by its pillowy or ropy appearance.

  • Phoehoe is found at the volcano, which have a smooth, billowy, undulating, or ropy surface.

  • Ale muste haue these properties, it muste be fresshe and cleare, it muste not be ropy, nor smoky, nor it must haue no wefte nor tayle.

  • In contrast to the relatively spare style of his compatriots, his ropy brushstrokes piled one on the other to produce masses of texture combined in dense and involved patterns.

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