convoluted
Example Sentences
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How barmy is it to fly thousands of people half-way around the world to sit in giant air-conditioned tents to argue about commas, and interpretations of convoluted words?
From BBC
Our reviewer, Steven Poole, wrote that “the book proceeds like a convoluted murder mystery, introducing one suspect after another in what seems like an open-and-shut case, before puncturing the promising narrative with an inconvenient fact.”
The writer of “Politics and the English Language” recognized such convoluted reasoning and the dangers associated with it:
From Salon
Harris pledged a convoluted tax break to help first-time home buyers, for instance.
From Barron's
It required a convoluted creation of what even one of the prosecutors called a “zombie” case.
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