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Tortuous

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Definitions for Tortuous

adjective
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
Synonyms
Byzantine convoluted involved knotty tangled
Examples
  1. the Byzantine tax structure
  2. Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship
  3. convoluted legal language
  4. convoluted reasoning
  5. the plot was too involved
  6. a knotty problem
  7. got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering
  8. Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott
  9. tortuous legal procedures
  10. tortuous negotiations lasting for months
adjective
marked by repeated turns and bends
Synonyms
twisting twisty winding voluminous
Examples
  1. a tortuous road up the mountain
  2. winding roads are full of surprises
  3. had to steer the car down a twisty track
adjective
not straightforward
Examples
  1. his tortuous reasoning

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