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31tortuous — /ˈtɔtʃuəs / (say tawchoohuhs) adjective 1. full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked. 2. not direct or straightforward as in a course of procedure, thought, speech, or writing: *He d forgotten that Algie s tortuous grammar… …
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33tortuous — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, ambagious, ambiguous, anamorphous, anfractuous, askew, asymmetric, bedizened, bent, big sounding, billowing, billowy, bowed, circuitous, circumlocutory, cockeyed, complicated,… …
34tortuous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. spiral, snaky, sinuous, serpentine; winding, crooked. See convolution. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Winding] Syn. snaky, sinuous, twisting; see crooked 1 , winding . 2. [Not straightforward] Syn.… …
35tortuous — see TORMENT …
36tortuous — tor·tu·ous || tÉ”rtʃʊəs / tÉ”Ë adj. twisting, winding, bending; marked by tricky tactics, crooked …
37tortuous — a. 1. Crooked, sinuous, curved, curvilinear, curvilineal, sinuate, sinuated, winding, serpentine, bending in and out, wreathed, twisted, mazy, flexuous. 2. Perverse, circuitous, roundabout, indirect, deceitful, wrong, erroneous, mischievous,… …
38tortuous — adj 1. twisting, winding, anfractuous, flexuous, sinuous, sinuate, undulating, serpentine, snaky, vermiculate, zigzag; turning, meandering, curvilinear, curved, curvy; spiraling, circling, convoluted, volute; tortile, twisted, crooked, bent; mazy …
39tortuous — tor·tu·ous …
40tortuous — see TORMENT …