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Definition of 'tortuous'English
Adjective
( en-adj)
Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
* 2007 October 6, “Slogging on the Home Front”, editorial in ,
- It still takes almost half a year for the average veteran’s claim for disability benefits to be decided in a tortuous process that can involve four separate hearings.
* Macaulay
- The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
(obsolete) injurious; tortious
(astrology) oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely
* Skeat
- Infortunate ascendent tortuous .
Usage notes
* This term has strongly negative connotations, perhaps transferred from the similar-sounding adjective torturous .
* Not to be confused with the legal term tortious .
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