31
roundabout(adjective, straight, bent, crooked, secondary)
24
devious(adjective, straight, deviation, bent, crooked)
24
indirect(adjective, straight, deviation, bent, crooked)
22
tortuous(adjective, obscure, straight, sophisticated, ambiguous)
16
rambling(adjective, obscure, sophisticated, deviation, bent)
16
winding(verb, adjective, obscure, sophisticated, bent)
15
meandering(adjective, obscure, sophisticated, crooked, ambiguous)
14
circular(adjective, straight, ambiguous, rambling, around)
14
oblique(adjective, straight, bent, ambiguous, around)
12
ambagious(adjective, around, indirect, winding, meandering)
12
serpentine(adjective, bent, crooked, ambiguous, sly)
12
zigzag(adjective, deviation, bent, ambiguous, devious)
10
anfractuous(adjective, straight, winding)
10
sinuous(adjective, obscure, sophisticated, crooked, ambiguous)
10
twisting(adjective, bent, crooked, ambiguous, devious)
9
circumlocutory(adjective, ambiguous, rambling, indirect, incidental)
9
discursive(adjective, obscure, sophisticated, confused, deviation)
8
collateral(adjective, ambiguous, secondary, rambling, around)
8
crooked(adjective, bent, ambiguous, warped, incidental)
8
periphrastic(adjective, confused, ambiguous, pointless, rambling)
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