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tortuous englanniksi
Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
{{quote-book|en|year=1848|author=Thomas Babington Macaulay|title=The History of England from the Accession of James the Second|volume=1|publisher=Porter & Coates|page=243
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2007 October 6, “Slogging on the Home Front”, editorial in ''New York Times|The New York Times'',
- It still takes almost half a year for the average veteran’s claim for disability benefits to be decided in a tortuous process that can involve four separate hearings.
(quote-book)|page=109|text=But the early Tubes still tended to follow the public streets in order to save money, hence some tortuous curves.
Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
{{quote-text|en|year=1872|author=Walter William Skeat|title=Chaucer's A Treatise on the Astrolabe