knotted

The traditional hiring channels are broken, and the employment pipeline is knotted.

We are talking about something knotted up in envy and indifference and disdain.

This is a knotted situation that could become even worse domestically if Rangers were not so hell-bent on raising the ante in the crisis stakes.

Charlie opens a ghost kitchen and insists on being called “chef,” his apron knotted tight like he’s about to sear duck breast instead of, say, boil milksteak.

Bandannas tied and knotted around the gate put a familiar symbol of individual liberation and civil rights resistance at the heart of the work.