tortuousness
Example Sentences
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Besides a general, jerky tortuousness of plot and hint and good red herring, separate scenes are overtrained to a point at which, matched together, they are too stale for the race.
From Time Magazine Archive
The meticulous tortuousness of family life struck Mr. Twist with a sudden great impatience.
From Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth
The tortuousness of the route must have made the journey twice as long as it need have been with a little more careful selection.
From The Mystery of 31 New Inn by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
Welsh nyddu, to turn or twist, in the sense of tortuousness; and the other is Old Norse nidr, fremor, strepitus.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
Dysentery had already broken out, and the length and tortuousness of their communications were greatly emphasised by the condition of the roads.
From The French Revolution by Hilaire Belloc
