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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | winding |
| Synonyms: | anfractuous, convoluted, entwined, flexuous, indirect, meandering, meandrous, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisting, writhing, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | straight, unwinding |
| Main Entry: | crooked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bent, angled |
| Synonyms: | agee, anfractuous, angular, asymmetric, awry, bowed, catawampus, circuitous, cockeyed, contorted, crippled, curved, curving, deformed, deviating, devious, disfigured, distorted, errant, gnarled, hooked, incurving, indirect, irregular, kinky, knurly, lopsided, meandering, misshapen, not straight, oblique, out of shape, rambling, roundabout, screwy, serpentine, sinuous, skewed, slanted, snaky, spiral, tilted, topsy-turvy, tortile, tortuous, twisted, twisting, uneven, warped, winding, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | curved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bowed, bent |
| Synonyms: | S-shaped, arced, arched, arciform, arrondi, biflected, circular, compass, crooked, curly, curvaceous, curvilinear, declinate, elliptical, enbowed, humped, incurvate, incurved, looped, loopy, round, rounded, serpentine, sigmoid, sinuous, skewed, snaky, sweeping, swirly, turned, twisted, twisting, twisty, wreathed |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | disloyal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfaithful |
| Synonyms: | alienated, apostate, cheating, disaffected, double-crossing, estranged, faithless, false, perfidious, recreant, seditious, snaky, subversive, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, two-faced, two-timing, unloyal, unpatriotic, untrue, untrustworthy, wormlike |
| Antonyms: | faithful, loyal, true, trustworthy |
| Main Entry: | insidious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sneaky, tricky |
| Synonyms: | Machiavellian, artful, astute, corrupt, crafty, crooked, cunning, dangerous, deceitful, deceptive, deep, designing, dishonest, disingenuous, duplicitous, ensnaring, false, foxy, guileful, intriguing, like a snake in the grass, perfidious, perilous, secret, slick, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaking, stealthy, subtle, surreptitious, treacherous, wily, wormlike |
| Notes: | insidious (Latin insidere 'to lie in wait for,' from sedere 'sit') describes stealthy, treacherous behavior; invidious behavior arouses ill will, animosity, or hostility |
| Antonyms: | fair, honest, open, sincere |
| Main Entry: | serpentine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | winding; sly |
| Synonyms: | anfractuous, artful, cagey, circuitous, clever, coiling, convoluted, crafty, cunning, curved, curvy, foxy, indirect, mazy, meandering, meandrous, shrewd, sinuous, slick, slinky, snakelike, snaky, subtle, supple, twisting, twisting and turning, wily |
| Main Entry: | sharp |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest, deceitful |
| Synonyms: | artful, bent, crafty, cunning, designing, ornery, salty, shady, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smart, snaky, two-faced, underhand, unethical, unscrupulous, wily |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, forthright, frank, honest |
| Main Entry: | sinuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | winding, twisting |
| Synonyms: | anfractuous, circuitous, coiling, convoluted, crooked, curved, curvy, deviative, devious, flexuous, indirect, meandering, meandrous, serpentine, snaky, supple, tortuous, twisting and turning, undulating, vagrant |
| Antonyms: | straight, untwisted, unwinding |
| Main Entry: | tortuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very twisted |
| Synonyms: | anfractuous, bent, circuitous, convoluted, crooked, curved, flexuous, indirect, involute, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, meandrous, roundabout, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, twisting, vermiculate, winding, zigzag |
| Notes: | tortuous is 'winding, crooked, full of twists and turns' and torturous (based on 'torture') is 'painful, characterized by suffering' |
| Antonyms: | direct, straight, untwisted |
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