Having many twists and turns; winding or sinuous in form or outline; circuitous, convoluted. Also figurative.

Full of twists, turns, or bends; twisted, winding, crooked, sinuous.

= tortuous, adj. 1.

Of or pertaining to a snake; snake-like, snaky.

That follows a sinuous course, takes or has a curvilinear form, or is full of bends and turns. Of plants or their parts, lines or figures, etc.

Resembling a worm; worm-like.

Bent, curved; having one or several bends.

in wriggled work = wriggle-work n. at wriggle-, comb._form affix.

Characterized by or abounding in turns, curves, or sinuosities; sinuate, curving.

Like a serpent; = serpentine, adj.

Resembling a serpent or that of a serpent, serpent-like, serpentiform, serpentine.

Resembling the form of a snake; long and winding or twisting; sinuous, tortuous.

Full of bends or curves; winding, sinuous. Now chiefly in scientific use, said of animal or vegetable structures.

Winding, twisting, sinuous.

Winding in and out; having twists and turns; twisted. Also as adv.

Full of turnings or windings; containing or consisting of many coils or convolutions.

winding.

Having a direction or following a course resembling that of a serpent in motion; tortuous, sinuous, winding. Also, esp. in reference to canals or…

Having a curve or curves; full of curves, curved; marked with or characterized by curves.

winding, tortuous.

Winding, twisting; figurative working or advancing insidiously or tortuously.

Winding, convoluted; esp. needlessly lengthy and verbose; prolix.

Of or resembling a snake in form; snakelike; cf. serpentine, adj. 1a.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a snake or serpent; snakelike. Now rare.

Having many curves or turns; winding, sinuous, serpentine.

That twists, in various senses of the verb; turning; wringing or wrenching; curving, winding, crooked; †interlacing (obsolete); involved.

Having the sinuous shape or form characteristic of a worm; consisting of, characterized by, tortuous outlines or markings; sinuous, wavy.

Resembling a worm in structure, form, movement, etc.; vermiform.

Winding in and out, bending to and fro, serpentine, undulating, crooked.

That meanders; winding, twisting. In quot. 1661 figurative: deliberately complicating.

Twisting in and out, sinuous; intricate; convoluted. Also figurative. Now rare.

Having the form of a serpent; serpentine in shape.

Winding or coiling like a serpent; winding, sinuous, tortuous.

Having the shape or form of a snake or serpent; resembling (that of) a snake; snakelike.

Of or resembling a serpent or snake; having a sinuous form; serpentine.

= tortuous, adj. 1.

Full of twists or windings, crooked; full of corners or crannies. Cf. crank, n.2 1 2.

Full of or characterized by bends or windings; sinuous, sinuated.

= serpentine, adj.

Full of twists or turns; characterized by twisting or winding; also figurative dishonest, not straightforward. (Cf. twistical, adj.)

Sinuous, winding.

Vermiculated; vermicular; sinuous. Chiefly figurative.

Characterized by, or suggestive of, twining.

Twisting, twisted, tortuous.

Twisting in and out, zigzag; sinuous, serpentine; intricate; convoluted. Also as adv. (now rare).

Serpentine, winding.

Characterized by or full of twists, turns, or flourishes. Cf. quirk, n.1 3a.

Somewhat twisted or crooked; figurative not straight or plain in character; morally or mentally tortuous.

Waggling, unsteady; in quots. transferred, having frequent irregular curves.

Winding; sinuous; tortuous.

Wavy, wriggly.

Characterized by or suggestive of ‘wiggling’; (in reference to form) having small irregular undulations. Also in reduplicated forms wiggly-waggly adj.…

twisting, tortuous.

characterized by ‘wig-wagging’, or by a form suggestive of this; tortuous, winding.

More generally: full of curves; curvy.