knobby
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He fidgets with a pair of eyeglasses and points a knobby index finger to underscore a point, jiggles his leg restlessly and, at one point, mimes playing guitar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Suddenly the muffin feels like it’s shrugging into a velvet robe and wool slippers, pausing at the window to take in a field of knobby pines.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
“That’s good,” he said, before pointing a knobby finger at me.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
On a recent drive north of Sacramento, I spotted a row of knobby peaks that looked more like a children’s book illustration than real-life mountains.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2024
The airdrome had been bombed eight months before, and knobby slabs of white stone rubble had been bulldozed into flat- topped heaps on both sides of the entrance through the wire fence surrounding the field.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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He says that the horn-encrusted brow of T. imperator consisted of spindle-shaped lumps while T. rex’s horns were knobbier.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
The Martian was a twisting, squirming, raging, biting, clawing, kicking wild tangle of knobby knees and knobbier elbows.
From The Next Time We Die by Robert Moore Williams
He looked larger and knobbier than ever and, if anything, more embarrassed.
From At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch
With an unerring eye the vendor pounced on the smallest and knobbiest apple in the tray and offered that.
From The Deaves Affair by Hulbert Footner