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
The tortuousness of the route must have made the journey twice as long as it need have been with a little more careful selection.
From The Mystery of 31 New Inn by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
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 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
The apparent tortuousness of Northcote's conduct was caused by the weakness of his position as leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons.
From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
