Usually means: In a painfully twisted manner.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. tortuously: Merriam-Webster
  2. tortuously: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tortuously: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tortuously: Vocabulary.com
  5. tortuously: Wordnik
  6. tortuously: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. tortuously: Wiktionary
  8. tortuously: Dictionary.com
  9. tortuously: Rhymezone
  10. tortuously: FreeDictionary.org
  11. tortuously: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. tortuously: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tortuously: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tortuously: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. tortuously: Medical dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a tortuous manner.

Similar:
tortiously, sinuously, twistedly, convolutedly, contortedly, torturedly, tangledly, circuitously, curvedly, torturously, more...

Opposite:
directly, straightforwardly, simply, clearly

Types:
sinuous, serpentine, winding, meandering, twisting, crooked, curved, more...

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Similar:
tortiously, sinuously, twistedly, convolutedly, contortedly, torturedly, tangledly, circuitously, curvedly, torturously, more...

Opposite:
directly, straightforwardly, simply, clearly

Types:
sinuous, serpentine, winding, meandering, twisting, crooked, curved, more...



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