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tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs] / ˈtɔr tʃu əs /




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Tortuous as Sharp's screenplay was, Peckinpah's direction did little to illuminate it.

From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2013

Splashy hires: Tortuous search yielded Pitt coach Todd Graham at $2 million annually.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2012

Tortuous foot-paths of vivid pink wound over brilliant green terraces of young paddy.

From Dragon's blood by Rideout, Henry Milner

Tortuous little streets lead through the town of Coucy into a great green space which commands the castle.

From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by Hurlbert, William Henry

Tortuous and precious, doctoral and complex, Hello, by the piercing cunning of his analysis, recalled to Des Esseintes the sharp, probing investigations of some of the infidel psychologists of the preceding and present century.

From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)




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