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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are tortuous" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is excessively complicated or convoluted, often in reference to processes, paths, or arguments.
Example: "The negotiations were tortuous, taking several months to reach a conclusion."
Alternatives: "are convoluted" or "are complex".
Dictionary
are tortuous
adjective
Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
Exact(12)
Too many of his clues are tortuous and meaningless.
But even on the small picture, the arguments are tortuous.
Porous metals manufactured by space holder methods have controllable porous structure, but the fluid pathways and channels are tortuous.
"This one I knew what was coming and sitting on that start line, oh, it's horrible – those hours in the morning are tortuous".
Anyone who has attended or participated in the annual general meeting of publicly traded companies knows they are tortuous affairs, often stage-managed by the corporate communications departments and their external advisers.
Its footpaths are "tortuous", the roof likely to "channel wind and rain" and its myriad columns – meant to evoke a forest – are incongruous with the vast landscape surrounding it.
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Again it was tortuous.
The funding package is tortuous.
A long and winding road is tortuous.
That conflict was tortuous, even when I was growing up.
But his gruelling World Cup triumph last year was tortuous.
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