Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a tortuous or winding manner.
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- adverb In a
tortuous manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with twists and turns
- adverb in a tortuous manner
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Examples
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They were both charged with what the lawyers might call tortuously doing a tortuous act.
Fifty Years Since: An Address Before the Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina 1860
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The Islamic Republic does it in its own way, tortuously, but it is backing down.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Sakineh, Ahmadinejad, and the "Insolents" Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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The Islamic Republic does it in its own way, tortuously, but it is backing down.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Sakineh, Ahmadinejad, and the "Insolents" Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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The Islamic Republic does it in its own way, tortuously, but it is backing down -- a fact made evident this morning in two announcements by officials from Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Sakineh, Ahmadinejad, and the "Insolents" Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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The Islamic Republic does it in its own way, tortuously, but it is backing down -- a fact made evident this morning in two announcements by officials from Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Sakineh, Ahmadinejad, and the "Insolents" Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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The Islamic Republic does it in its own way, tortuously, but it is backing down.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Sakineh, Ahmadinejad, and the "Insolents" Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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Jerusalem would be tortuously but fastidiously divided, allowing each side to have its capital there, with international oversight of the holy places.
Matthew Yglesias » American Public Prepared to Support Israel in Endless War With Arabs 2010
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The Islamic Republic does it in its own way, tortuously, but it is backing down.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Sakineh, Ahmadinejad, and the "Insolents" Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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Jerusalem would be tortuously but fastidiously divided, allowing each side to have its capital there, with international oversight of the holy places.
Matthew Yglesias » American Public Prepared to Support Israel in Endless War With Arabs 2010
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The Islamic Republic does it in its own way, tortuously, but it is backing down -- a fact made evident this morning in two announcements by officials from Iran
Bernard-Henri Lévy: Sakineh, Ahmadinejad, and the "Insolents" Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010
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