tortuous
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Tortuous as Sharp's screenplay was, Peckinpah's direction did little to illuminate it.
From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2013
Splashy hires: Tortuous search yielded Pitt coach Todd Graham at $2 million annually.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 26, 2012
Tortuous bush tracks are the usual means of internal communication.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
Tortuous and precious, doctoral and complex, Hello, by the piercing cunning of his analysis, recalled to Des Esseintes the sharp, probing investigations of some of the infidel psychologists of the preceding and present century.
From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)
Tortuous uphill streets lead to the piazza, where, on a steep incline, a fine double flight of steps with a marble balustrade give on to the spacious cloistered court or atrium beyond which it stands.
From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe
Vocabulary lists containing tortuous
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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