Tangled in a sentence as an adjective

" It's not tangled like spaghetti, but there are many, many layers.

Your explanation is so tangled that an entire battalion of Viet Cong could hide in it.

Gcc, for the sake of wanting to make it hard to call it from proprietary front-ends, is architecturally tangled.

One of the many things wrong with the "package manager" paradigm is that it encourages people to write software which is a tangled web of dependencies.

Whenever something can't be explained it's attributed to tangled magnetic fields.

But I'm every bit as engaged with the field as Alex is, and I'm here to tell you that you don't have to get tangled up in these kinds of ethical problems if you don't want to.

Why?\nBecause it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially...They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet.

I left california few months ago a tangled emotional mess, afraid of and hating parts of myself, desparately searching for the love of another to heal me.

When you can't even hold this crowd, that's a pretty good sign the employer's thoughts are so tangled up in their skewed perspective on labor that they can't even be badly rationalized into something approaching reasonable.

Stuff like "obtain verifiable parental consent" is so unfeasible and tangled for any web service with any significant amount of users it is tantamount to prohibiting under 13.

Instead of requiring a crazy tangled ness of polymorphism and mutable state.> Every non-trivial program is going to have to define abstract datatypesAbsolutely true.

It sucks that you have been acting in good faith and doing good work and have gotten tangled in the mess that is the many layers of laws, regulations, and corporate policies that make up our modern immigration, taxation, and financial systems.

Indirectly: your design is perhaps a bit tangled up, and you probably could work harder to separate concerns and isolate dependencies and think carefully about how the pieces interact and what they individually mean, and it might be difficult to compose those pieces in different ways later.

Tangled definitions

adjective

in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes"

adjective

highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"

See also: Byzantine convoluted involved knotty tortuous