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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
source: wordnet30
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not straightforward | | Example: his tortuous reasoning
source: wordnet30
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