noun
- A tortuous and twisted shape or position.
- usage: "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions"
- synonyms: tortuosity, tortuousness, torsion, contortion
- Having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles.
- The quality of being deceitful and underhanded.
- synonyms: deviousness
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