tortile
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Marilyn Monroe’s eye-catching gait is more tortile and wambling than ever.
From Time
A. Orcuttianum, Gray, is a similar species, but more slender, with fewer and smaller flowers, whose lower lip is not much larger than the upper, and whose flower-spikes are disposed to have the tortile branchlets in their midst.
From Project Gutenberg
Tortile, tor′til, adj. twisted: wreathed: coiled.—n.
From Project Gutenberg
Itch is beautifully mounted in De Luxe-color CinemaScope, and Marilyn Monroe's eye-catching gait is more tortile and wambling than ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
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