Tortuous (Adjective)
Meaning 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".
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Meaning 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".
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Examples
- The narrow stream flowed through a tortuous path, twisting and turning between the large boulders.
- The mountain pass was a tortuous road that made the bus ride an hour longer than usual.
- She enjoyed driving her car through the countryside on a tortuous route that led her to the nearby village.
- The old mansion had a tortuous staircase that seemed to have been built without any sense of symmetry.
- After a few hours of hiking, they came upon a tortuous trail that forced them to double back and re-orient themselves.
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Meaning 3
Not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning".
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