tortuous
adjective
full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked.
tortuousness
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a word derived from
tortuous.
Example Sentences
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Besides a general, jerky tortuousness of plot and hint and good red herring, separate scenes are overtrained to a point at which, matched together, they are too stale for the race.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nor yet with sufficient distinctness the sense of tortuousness, so strongly brought out in some of its derivatives.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
Welsh nyddu, to turn or twist, in the sense of tortuousness; and the other is Old Norse nidr, fremor, strepitus.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
Dysentery had already broken out, and the length and tortuousness of their communications were greatly emphasised by the condition of the roads.
From The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc
It was horrible that nowadays, in thinking of Susy, he should always suspect ulterior motives, be meanly on the watch for some hidden tortuousness.
From The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton
