tortuous 1
adjectivedomain: all adj
Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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EnglishDefinition
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
Examples
- 1.the Byzantine tax structure
- 2.a knotty problem
- 3.the plot was too involved
- 4.tortuous negotiations lasting for months
- 5.Oh, what a tangled web we weave- Sir Walter Scott
- 6.tortuous legal procedures
- 7.Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship
- 8.convoluted legal language
- 9.convoluted reasoning
- 10.got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering
