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adjective highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - Sir Walter Scott
adjective marked by repeated turns and bends
adjective not straightforward
originFrom Middle English tortuous, tortuose, from Anglo-Norman and Old French tortuos, from Latin tortuōsus, from tortus (“a twisting, winding”).
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