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- noun The quality of being
gnarly .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I'm scared of how, if I gave in to this gnarliness, this greyness, my present popularity and support system would likely fail.
Archive 2005-09-01 Rachel 2005
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I'm scared of how, if I gave in to this gnarliness, this greyness, my present popularity and support system would likely fail.
Darker than grey. Rachel 2005
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They've always favored the hardcore half of the thrash-metal hybrid-they use shouty skate-punk vocals instead of death growls, for instance, and backbeats intead of blastbeats-and the exuberant adolescent gnarliness of their lyrics and imagery is an effective antidote to metal's creeping self-seriousness.
Chicago Reader 2010
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They've always favored the hardcore half of the thrash-metal hybrid-they use shouty skate-punk vocals instead of death growls, for instance, and backbeats intead of blastbeats-and the exuberant adolescent gnarliness of their lyrics and imagery is an effective antidote to metal's creeping self-seriousness.
Chicago Reader 2010
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They've always favored the hardcore half of the thrash-metal hybrid-they use shouty skate-punk vocals instead of death growls, for instance, and backbeats intead of blastbeats-and the exuberant adolescent gnarliness of their lyrics and imagery is an effective antidote to metal's creeping self-seriousness.
Chicago Reader 2010
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They've always favored the hardcore half of the thrash-metal hybrid-they use shouty skate-punk vocals instead of death growls, for instance, and backbeats intead of blastbeats-and the exuberant adolescent gnarliness of their lyrics and imagery is an effective antidote to metal's creeping self-seriousness.
Chicago Reader 2010
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They've always favored the hardcore half of the thrash-metal hybrid-they use shouty skate-punk vocals instead of death growls, for instance, and backbeats intead of blastbeats-and the exuberant adolescent gnarliness of their lyrics and imagery is an effective antidote to metal's creeping self-seriousness.
Chicago Reader 2010
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They've always favored the hardcore half of the thrash-metal hybrid-they use shouty skate-punk vocals instead of death growls, for instance, and backbeats intead of blastbeats-and the exuberant adolescent gnarliness of their lyrics and imagery is an effective antidote to metal's creeping self-seriousness.
Chicago Reader 2010
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They've always favored the hardcore half of the thrash-metal hybrid-they use shouty skate-punk vocals instead of death growls, for instance, and backbeats intead of blastbeats-and the exuberant adolescent gnarliness of their lyrics and imagery is an effective antidote to metal's creeping self-seriousness.
Chicago Reader 2010
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They've always favored the hardcore half of the thrash-metal hybrid-they use shouty skate-punk vocals instead of death growls, for instance, and backbeats intead of blastbeats-and the exuberant adolescent gnarliness of their lyrics and imagery is an effective antidote to metal's creeping self-seriousness.
Chicago Reader 2010
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