What is "loosely knit"

Usage examples of "loosely knit".

The Foundation is greater in volume and population, but they are loosely knit and will fall apart at a blow.

The Dispersionists, a covert, loosely knit organization before the arrest of Edmund Wyatt, were now an open faction in the House.

It is a country 'governed'-although that's too precise a term for so amorphous a concept-by a loosely knit organic conglomerate of entities including the prime minister and his ruling party, the Diet, the samurai bureaucracy, the corporations of the business world, and the Yakuza.

The digestive tracts of the huge man seemed never to have been in use, whilst the whole skin had a coarse, loosely knit texture impossible to account for.

The Picts had the advantage of numbers and unity, whereas the Atlanteans had fallen into loosely knit clans.

Waxman has risen to the top of a loosely knit group of men who call themselves Looking-Glass.

The artist has well caught the slouchy, slovenly look of his loosely knit figure, his long limbs and narrow head, with the snakelike eyes and slightly receding chin.

They entered the city in three loosely knit groups set about fifty yards apart.