figurative. Tortuous, crooked, wily. Obsolete.
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释义 | the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [adjective] > tortuous (3) winding1594 figurative. Tortuous, crooked, wily. Obsolete. tortuous1801 figurative. Not direct or straightforward; indirect, irregular, devious, circuitous, crooked: esp. in a moral sense. (In quot. 1801 apparently… unstraightforward1887 (un-, prefix1 affix 1.) |
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