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Meanings of tortuous in English
Synonyms
Examples for "involved"
Examples for "involved"
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DISCRIMINATION Spitzer also said the refusal involved the victims' nationality and religion.
2
Four of those cases involved domestic violence victims fleeing their abusive partners.
3
Cases mostly involved young people, with a low proportion of severe cases.
4
Therefore the delay, said a government source directly involved in the policymaking.
5
The central fisheries issue involved concerned freedom of access and traditional rights.
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It tangled, but she managed to free it without the woman's help.
2
He tangled his feet in the blanket and fell in a heap.
3
I didn't understand your words, but your voice was tangled and raw.
4
Before long the cultivated fields gave way to the valley's tangled grassland.
5
The back of his coat was all tangled up in the barbs.
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Some see it as a critique of Iran's byzantine justice system.
2
He has spent far too long revelling in the byzantine minutiae of American politics.
3
Byzantine influence was felt both in the north and in the south.
4
Justinian deposited in the Byzantine palace the treasures of the Gothic monarchy.
5
See the compilations of Bollandus from the authors of the Byzantine history.
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But that also means treatment options are based on more convoluted information.
2
Is that a needlessly convoluted way to hear a new Jay-Z album?
3
Which is all a very convoluted way of answering your initial question.
4
Perhaps the concept of one-dimensional length is simply ill-suited for convoluted coastlines.
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He's talking about the convoluted financial and operating structure of the business.
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In his long, knotty fingers he carried a copy of the Signal.
2
It was full of knotty points requiring deep thinking, and the Hon.
3
Its bark is more rough and knotty than that of the palm-tree.
4
Linking the knotty ribbons, I used six Osmanthus x burkwoodii topiary balls.
5
He held his knotty hands motionless over the flame of his lamp.
Usage of tortuous in English
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But North African leaders have to navigate a particularly tortuous sectarian path.
2
Having so many regulators also makes drafting new rules a tortuous process.
3
Previous election deadlines have slipped during a tortuous United Nations-backed peace process.
4
The tortuous course of the river added much to the scenic effect.
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Two miles, perhaps three, it wound its tortuous way down the mountain.
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From this her mind took a tortuous and serious linking of ideas.
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Others hoped the country's tortuous peace process would get back on track.
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Adding to the drama was the tortuous way the names were released.
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But she was in haste to get out of her tortuous path.
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There are also many approaches to Belfast, some more tortuous than others.
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To listen to the tortuous talker is a supreme test of patience.
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It was I that lured-thatended by luring-Beatainto the tortuous path-
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At twelve I climbed the tortuous stairs leading to the Countess's apartments.
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At the command, each vessel began to pursue a tortuous spiral path.
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It might be tortuous, detailed, but it would not run and run.
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The road was a slender, tortuous one, winding through rocks and gorges.
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Tortuous through the time
Tortuous across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common