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1. (adj.) tortuous
full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked.
2. tortuous
not direct or straightforward, as in procedure or speech; circuitous:
tortuous negotiations.
3. tortuous
deceitfully indirect or morally crooked; devious.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < L tortuōsus=tortu(s) a twisting (tor(quēre) to twist, bend +-tus suffix of v. action) +-ōsus -ous)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous
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"
2. (adj) tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding, voluminous
marked by repeated turns and bends
"a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track"
3. (adj) tortuous
not straightforward
"his tortuous reasoning"
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1. (adj) tortuous
bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla
2. (adj) tortuous
fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful
3. (adj) tortuous
injurious: tortious
4. (adj) tortuous
oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely
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