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is tortuous
adjective
Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
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The funding package is tortuous.
A long and winding road is tortuous.
The bus journey from Lima is tortuous and often involves a lengthy stop in Arequipa.
"The road journey, on the A7, is tortuous and can take twice as long".
Its uppermost course is tortuous, with a rocky bed and high banks under luxuriant vegetation.
The story is as simple as its telling is tortuous: Wally, unhappily married to a hotshot doctor, William Richard Coylee), has developed a fixation with Wallis Simpson.
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That conflict was tortuous, even when I was growing up.
But his gruelling World Cup triumph last year was tortuous.
Correct: The road through the forest was tortuous.
The negotiations with the Church of England have been tortuous.
K.K.R.'s path to the New York Stock Exchange has been tortuous.
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