tortuousness
- 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
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 Belloc, Hilaire
This transaction, taken in connection with the tortuousness of his public course, explains the distrust I have always expressed for him.
From Democracy, an American novel by Adams, Henry
The sense then might be either the ordinary one of motion, the root-meaning of most river names, or it might be the special sense of tortuousness.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
Probably upon the whole the sense of tortuousness is that which should be recognized.
From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert
