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tortile
adjective as in coiled
Weak match
adjective as in crooked
Strong matches
adjective as in spiral
Example Sentences
Marilyn Monroe’s eye-catching gait is more tortile and wambling than ever.
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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