Tortuous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TORTUOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• marked by turns or bends
• full of twists and turns
• excessively lengthy and complex
• winding or twisting
• Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
• Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
• Injurious: tortious.
• Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
• marked by repeated turns and bends
• not straightforward
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• marked by repeated turns or bends

Words related to TORTUOUS

tortuously13 tortuousness12

How to use TORTUOUS in a sentence

• The district was like a small Switzerland, and as I went forward my tortuous course shut out the path behind me.
• It is a tortuous and almost unbearable act for the American justice system to put people in jail because they want to learn things which are forbidden for them to know.
• Others burst from their very birth on rocks of difficulty, and rush, throughout their course, in tortuous, broken channels.
• But Commander Farragut would not take a tortuous passage, but doubled Cape Horn.
• Peter, we were led through a tortuous subterranean passage of Etruscan character, a hundred yards long, cut out of the rock.
• These tortuous roads, which were so beloved by Rhodes, were absolutely abhorrent to the High Commissioner.
• In this, which involved the passage of the tortuous and dangerous channel called Hell Gate, with its swift conflicting currents, the Navy again bore an essential part.
• In the course of a very tortuous political career, he has kept the advancement and civilization of Servia steadily in view, and has always shown himself regardless of sordid gain.
• It was that ever-existent thirst for access to the ocean which tempted her into tortuous diplomacy, drawing her on and on, like the hand of fate.
• Far up the tortuous windings of this gorge was the tomb of the great Rameses and there had the precious signet been lost.
• He let himself into the valley and, closing the valves behind him, went up the tortuous gorge, darkened by the shadows of its walls.
• Trackless and tortuous, the way underfoot was incredibly difficult.
• Three miles out, on the tortuous trail of the pursued, the column halted and dismounted among the pines.
• In a certain secret and tortuous correspondence he figured as Octavius, and you may still read his sprawling script in the Record Office.
• By a tortuous path he went down the side of the mountain low enough to have a distinct view of the camp.
• The door was now closed and bolted behind him, and he was taken up a narrow flight of tortuous stairs.
• She was able to exhibit it to Verena with the greatest authority and accuracy, to lead her up and down, in and out, through all the darkest and most tortuous passages.
• The Mississippi becomes a rapid, tortuous, seething torrent.
• The latter we found very tortuous, extending in a general direction south nine miles.
• Foiled in his first attempt, the vindictive Ming-shu now creeps towards his end by a more tortuous path.
• On further examination I found that the course was very tortuous and the water deep.
• Starr could not see any sense in it, and that is why he followed the tortuous track to where the machine had stopped.
• This made it necessary to approach our new home by tortuous ways, and to take to subterranean courses at a very early stage of the journey.
• When I go over a hill I have a sort of picture-memory of what lies behind, to help me home again, however tortuous my path is on the other side.

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