Crossword-Solution: TORTUOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Tortuous | a. | Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla. |
| Tortuous | a. | Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful. |
| Tortuous | a. | Injurious: tortious. |
| Tortuous | a. | Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. |
We have 39 clues for the answer “TORTUOUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Far from direct | 1 answer |
| Full of twists and turns | 5 answers |
| Undulating | 13 answers |
| tortuousness | 15 answers |
| subtext | 15 answers |
| obliqueness | 16 answers |
| Twisty? | 16 answers |
| roundabout nature | 16 answers |
| indirectness | 16 answers |
| implicitness | 16 answers |
| anfractuous | 17 answers |
| Zig-zagging | 17 answers |
| indirect nature | 17 answers |
| circuitousness | 18 answers |
| obliquity | 19 answers |
| Serpentine | 21 answers |
| Wavy | 25 answers |
| winding | 31 answers |
| convoluted | 36 answers |
| bruising | 39 answers |
| roundabout | 40 answers |
| torturing | 40 answers |
| Struggling | 40 answers |
| excruciating | 40 answers |
| racking | 40 answers |
| disquieting | 42 answers |
| agonising | 43 answers |
| Tearing | 45 answers |
| Harrowing | 47 answers |
| worrying | 48 answers |
| saddening | 48 answers |
| Aching | 52 answers |
| Pain-staking | 53 answers |
| arduous | 59 answers |
| Laborious | 63 answers |
| Twisted | 80 answers |
| Repulsive | 83 answers |
| Terrible | 84 answers |
| Shocking | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TORTUOUS (5)
She went out of the town by a tortuous back street, and drove slowly along, unconscious of the road and the scene.
The pit was still in darkness; the mighty engines, so great and wonderful in their power and complexity, so unearthly in their tortuous forms, rose weird and vague and strange out of the shadows towards the light.
The streets were narrow, tortuous, and mostly evil-smelling, with a mixture of stale fish and damp cellar odours.
The way led through a maze of tortuous corridors, unlighted save for the wavering light they carried.
With a sigh I turned the prow of my craft down stream, and with mighty strokes hastened with reckless speed through the dark and tortuous channel until once again I came to the chamber into which flowed the three branches of the river.
Quotes with TORTUOUS (3)
Men would no longer be victims of nature or of their own largely irrational societies: reason would triumph; universal harmonious cooperation, true history, would at last begin. For if this was not so, do the ideas of progress, of history, have any meaning? Is there not a movement, however tortuous, from ignorance to knowledge, from mythical thought and childish fantasies to perception of reality face to face, to knowledge of true goals, true values as well as truths of fact?…
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of a God. It... has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
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