tortuousness

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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

It was horrible that nowadays, in thinking of Susy, he should always suspect ulterior motives, be meanly on the watch for some hidden tortuousness.

From The Glimpses of the Moon by Wharton, Edith

This transaction, taken in connection with the tortuousness of his public course, explains the distrust I have always expressed for him.

From Democracy, an American novel by Adams, Henry

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 Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)

The road was tantalizing in its tortuousness; after walking a furlong we found ourselves a couple of yards directly above the point we had quitted a quarter of an hour before.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus