English to English adjective
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Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious | | Example: 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 tortuous legal procedures tortuous negotiations lasting for months
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marked by repeated turns and bends | | Example: a tortuous road up the mountain winding roads are full of surprises had to steer the car down a twisty track
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not straightforward | | Example: his tortuous reasoning
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