5
tortuous(adjective, straight, bent, devious, indirect)
5
transverse(adjective, crosswise, across)
5
underhand(adjective, false, dishonest, cunning, deceitful)
4
ambagious
4
angle(noun, cross)
4
bent(adjective, crooked, devious, jagged, errant)
4
discursive(ambiguous, rambling, indirect, incidental, circuitous)
4
disingenuous(adjective, false, dishonest, cunning, misleading)
4
external oblique muscle(noun, expression, idiom)
4
false(vague, misleading, illusory, slippery, shifty)
4
meandering(adjective, irregular, bent, ambiguous, devious)
4
misleading(adjective, false, vague, ambiguous, illusory)
4
obscure(adjective, difficult, vague, ambiguous, misleading)
4
periphrastic(adjective, ambiguous, rambling, indirect, incidental)
4
sloped(adjective, slanting)
4
spiral
4
surreptitious(adjective, dishonest, cunning, deceitful, shrewd)
3
abdominal external oblique muscle
3
angular(adjective, bent, warped, devious, jagged)
3
askance(adjective, askew, slanting)
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