Definitionadj. highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
Last update: July 7, 2015
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This is a tortuous lane. [adverb]
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Chanakya used tortuous methods . [adverb]
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Christians ought to be asking why the early gentile followers of Jesus sought to disguise the truth in favor of a tortuous myth. [adjective]
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These ballooned tortuous veins are the varicose veins you can see just under the skin. [adjective]
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It stretches from a point not far from Alexandria, in a south-easterly direction, and following its tortuous course, is more than fifty miles in length. [adjective]
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The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, tortuous, colossal citadel. [adjective]
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All the mystery and witchery of the night seemed to have gathered there amid the perfumes and the dusky and tortuous outlines of flowers and foliage. [adjective]
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In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted streets which terminate in the village of Montfermeil on the side of Chelles. [adjective]
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The dwarf's roundabout route was characteristic of his tortuous mind. [Please select]
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Watson and her tortuous conversation, and, as he would have expressed it, "took stock of her." [Please select]
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