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tortuous

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Phonetic spelling

  • ˈtȯr-chə-wəs
  • ˈtȯrch-

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tortuous is not considered offensive across 1 Merriam-Webster entry.

Dictionary3 results
  1. marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding
  2. marked by devious or indirect tactics : crooked, tricky
  3. circuitous, involved
Thesaurus1 results
  1. marked by a long series of irregular curves
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Urban Dictionary4 results

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  1. 1. Something so terrifically [wicked] it causes [terror]. 2. constituting a [tort].
  2. A male symptom that occurs when much action and dry humping has occurred with a [girlfriend] or boyfriend, but where trousers have remained on. The condition is extremely painful, and [chronic], as the pain [will] mount until the pressure is released.
  3. Medical condition; the inevitable outcome of participating in too much [mathematics], particularly maths methods. It is a potentially fatal state of the mind that can occur to any non-[genius] participating in [maths]. It belongs to the group of conditions commonly referred to as mind f*ck.
  4. [bruh]
Associations20 results
  1. knotty
  2. tangled
  3. serpentine
  4. problematic
  5. gnarled
  6. complex
  7. crooked
  8. intricate
  9. indirect
  10. convoluted
  11. complicated
  12. sinuosity
  13. meander
  14. winding
  15. labyrinthine
  16. sinuous
  17. difficult
  18. convolution
  19. labyrinth
  20. circuitous

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