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tortuously

/tawr-choo-uhs/US // ˈtɔr tʃu əs //UK // (ˈtɔːtjʊəs) //

迂回地,曲折地,迂回,迂回的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked: a tortuous path.
    • : not direct or straightforward, as in procedure or speech; circuitous: tortuous negotiations lasting for months.
    • : deceitfully indirect or morally crooked, as proceedings, methods, or policy; devious.

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Examples

  • Breathes there a man so tortuously afflicted with Strabismus that he doesn't see it?

  • Just then a dark lean man came tortuously along the garden path.

  • Mrs. Martin had slowly and tortuously worked up to her climax, and she shot forth the last sentence with a jubilant ring.

  • After a third defeat this thread seemed to guide me to daylight from a tortuously winding cavern.

  • You are no longer the slow, plodding, puny thing of clay, creeping tortuously upon the ground; you are a part of Nature!