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Meaning of tortuous


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  tortuous
      adj 1: 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" [syn:
             {Byzantine}, {convoluted}, {involved}, {knotty},
             {tangled}, {tortuous}]
      2: 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" [syn: {tortuous},
         {twisting}, {twisty}, {winding}, {voluminous}]
      3: not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"


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