tortuously

The Democratic-led Senate passed a tortuously negotiated bipartisan bill that included funding for Ukraine and the border months ago.

The nation being engineered by a fanatical, committed minority will ignore the pluralistic consensus, the whole arc of history that has bent, however tortuously, toward justice.

Then under Theresa May, there were plenty of Cabinet ministers who believed the promised cap should be junked, even when we were tortuously out of the EU and could manage the numbers ourselves.

There is no reason to try to serve your constituents if your election is guaranteed by tortuously drawn lines on a map.

Meanwhile, The Guardian's Benjamin Lee could only muster one star, describing the effort as a "tortuously bad...shoddy disaster".