Tortuously (Adverb)
Meaning 1
With twists and turns.
Examples
- The old staircase wound tortuously through the tower, with each step revealing a new architectural curiosity.
- The trail through the mountains ran tortuously up the side of the valley, its serpentine path mirroring the shape of the surrounding landscape.
- As she made her way through the city, her path tortuously took her past markets and landmarks that blurred together in a dizzying collage of sounds and colors.
- The rivers flowed tortuously across the fertile plain, feeding crops that rippled with an impossible gentleness.
- Tortuously curved limbs splayed across the arched gateway like ethereal fingertips in rictus grip, beautiful but troubling in design.
Meaning 2
In a tortuous manner; "tortuously haggling over the price".