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Definition

marked by repeated turns and bends

or:

highly complex or intricate

A tortuous road up the mountain

Tortuous legal procedures
His tortuous reasoning
There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden; old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, fashionably, and keeping in the corners — and a great number of single girls dancing individualistically or relieving the orchestra for a moment of the burden of the banjo or the traps.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

tortuously = with repeated turns and bends

They have gone down the highways of the South on tortuous rides for freedom.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Letter from a Birmingham Jail

tortuous = complex or with repeated bends and turns

Then he opened the car door on his side and strolled round to my side, his breath shaping tortuous smoke signals in the gray air.
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar

tortuous = marked by repeated turns and bends

In his moment of terrible vision he saw, in the tortuous ways of a thousand alien places, his foiled quest of himself.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
He knew the fine old cities already as though he had trodden their tortuous streets from childhood.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
Having reached the summit of his vengeance by a long and tortuous path, he saw an abyss of doubt yawning before him.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
It was gravel on rock bottom, tortuous, but open, with infrequent and shallow downward steps.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
That is a wide region of sluggish fen where the stream becomes tortuous and much divided.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring
Pathfinder was as simple as the Quartermaster was practised; he was as sincere as the other was false, and as direct as the last was tortuous.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
That is the tortuous method preferred, in each of the meanderings of his indefatigable novel, by the oblique Ts'ui Pên.
Jorge Luis Borges -- The Garden of Forking Paths
The second way was tortuous.
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
Slowly, tortuously, he at last began to write an answer.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
A small, dim, crooked shop, kept in a tortuous, up-hill thoroughfare, by a small, dim, crooked man.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
She went out of the town by a tortuous back street, and drove slowly along, unconscious of the road and the scene.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
The streets were narrow, tortuous, and mostly evil-smelling, with a mixture of stale fish and damp cellar odours.
Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel
XX When Dick got out of the elevator he followed a tortuous corridor and turned at length toward a distant voice outside a lighted door.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
Tortuously, through Baig, Mortenson explained his wife was expecting him home in a few days, and that all CAI projects had to be approved by the board.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea

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