eng: tortuous

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Meaning
means	(adjective) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" Byzantine, tangled, convoluted, knotty, involved, tortuous
means	(adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track" twisty, voluminous, winding, tortuous, twisting
means	(adjective) not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning" tortuous