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
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
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
