tortuosity

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He who cheats his neighbour believes in tortuosity, and, as Carlyle says, has the Supreme Quack for his God.

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir

Our tents are played upon by the flickering shadows of the vast pipal-tree that rises in a laocoön tortuosity of roots out of an old well.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert

Mrs. Ogleton, too, had a pet—a favorite pug—whose squab figure, black muzzle, and tortuosity of tail, that curled like a head of celery in a salad-bowl, bespoke his Dutch extraction.

From Humorous Ghost Stories by Scarborough, Dorothy

As I expected, the depraved Whig Journalist, with characteristic mental tortuosity, has asserted that the sounds proceeded from a rookery in the adjoining wood, aided by the braying of the turf-man’s donkey.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 by Various

No description could exaggerate the tortuosity of the Linggi or the abruptness of its windings.

From The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)