TORTUOUS


Meaning of TORTUOUS in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a tortuous mountain trail

a twisting, tortuous track through the Snake Mountains

At last, an end to the tortuous negotiations was in sight.

It took six months of tortuous negotiations to reach an agreement.

Most of the villages are accessible only by boat or along tortuous jungle trails.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But it has been a tortuous and cumbersome journey.

His rather tortuous explanation seems to come to this.

It was a tortuous , switchback ride.

The legal ramifications of the Hains case are tortuous .

The people came from Bosanska Gradiska, 35 miles away on a twisting, tortuous track through the Snake Mountains.

They walked on, wandering through a warren of tortuous passageways where the noise and stench grasped Athelstan by the throat.

Your progress is slow and tortuous .

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