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tortuous
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Phonetic spelling
- ˈtȯr-chə-wəs
- ˈtȯrch-
Audio pronunciation
tortuous is not considered offensive across 1 Merriam-Webster entry.
Dictionary3 results
- marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding
- marked by devious or indirect tactics : crooked, tricky
- circuitous, involved
Thesaurus1 results
- marked by a long series of irregular curves
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Urban Dictionary4 results
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- 1. Something so terrifically [wicked] it causes [terror]. 2. constituting a [tort].
- 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.
- 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.
- [bruh]
Associations20 results
- knotty
- tangled
- serpentine
- problematic
- gnarled
- complex
- crooked
- intricate
- indirect
- convoluted
- complicated
- sinuosity
- meander
- winding
- labyrinthine
- sinuous
- difficult
- convolution
- labyrinth
- circuitous

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