tortuous
adjective
full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked.
tortuously
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a word derived from
tortuous.
Example Sentences
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A direct flight would take 11 hours but he was routed through Dubai instead, making the trip a tortuously long one.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
Viola’s video creates a palpable emotional sense of the very things that Barnes so tortuously tries to exemplify in his painting hang: a genuine universality that transcends individuals, and individual visions of the world.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2019
Particularly the kinds of necessary, tortuously difficult questions children and teen-agers are most curious about: What does it mean to stay in a committed relationship?
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 18, 2019
“Jesus, how many people are quietly, tortuously, fixated on a love they can’t have?” she says when I sat down to interview her the day after Valentine’s Day.
From The Verge ● Feb. 23, 2018
It twisted and turned tortuously, over small hillocks, through hedges and across fields.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
