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Adjective: tortuous  torchoous
  1. Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
    "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
    - Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled
     
  2. Marked by repeated turns and bends
    "a tortuous road up the mountain"
    - twisting, twisty, winding, voluminous
     
  3. Not straightforward
    "his tortuous reasoning"

See also: complex, crooked, indirect, tortuousness

Encyclopedia: Tortuous

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