contortionist
noun
a person who performs gymnastic feats involving contorted postures.
contortionistic
-
a word derived from
contortionist.
Example Sentences
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There he is troubled by large and grotesque faces, by a contortionistic frog.
From Time Magazine Archive
And always the Jackie band from the Great Lakes Station, its white leggings twinkling down the street in the lead of its six-foot-six contortionistic drum-major.
From Half Portions by Edna Ferber
On the floor at Emma's feet there was knotted into a contortionistic attitude a small, wiry, impolite person named Smalley.
From Emma McChesney and Co. by Edna Ferber
