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tortile

adjective as in coiled

Weak match

adjective as in spiral

adjective as in twisted

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Marilyn Monroe’s eye-catching gait is more tortile and wambling than ever.

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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.

Tortile, tor′til, adj. twisted: wreathed: coiled.—n.

Itch is beautifully mounted in De Luxe-color CinemaScope, and Marilyn Monroe's eye-catching gait is more tortile and wambling than ever.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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