How to use "convoluted" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "convoluted" in popular movie and book plots

  • Nick and Hank warn Gates but she is convoluted in the investigation that she doesn't listen.  - Once We Were Gods
  • In a sting attempt by the chauffeur, who was given the letters for the purpose of negotiating with Lady Marjorie, monies were extorted from both Bellamys, each unknown to the other, with the convoluted result that ended with mr Dooley in jail (on an unrelated charge) and all monies restored to the individuals—with Thomas receiving a gratuity from each of the Bellamys.  - The Property of a Lady (Upstairs, Downstairs)
  • En route, he is also treated to an extremely full and convoluted monologue about Valerie's sexual experiences and hang-ups.  - Patterson (radio series)
  • Noting the protagonist's characteristically unreliable first-person narration, another reviewer notes, "This being Vlad (and Brust), the plan is typically complex and convoluted and really doesn't matter all that much, partly because Vlad doesn't really fill the reader in on everything that’s happening.  - Hawk (novel)
  • Kyle makes a convoluted plan to tell people how Canada has been hiring pushers to get people addicted, but Cartman instead just tweets the information, and it starts trending.  - Freemium Isn't Free
  • She involves them first in sexual games, then later in a convoluted murder plot.  - Oasis of Fear
  • However, things become convoluted as mr Reynolds is about to buy some useless shares of stock, having been convinced by Lyons-King, as Darrow begins to blackmail Janet due to some rather juicy letters she had sent to him.  - Tanned Legs
  • The novel has a convoluted plot, in common with many of Collins’ works.  - Hide and Seek (Collins novel)
  • Azdak shelters a "peasant" and protects him from authorities by a demonstration of convoluted logic.  - The Caucasian Chalk Circle
  • Ruiz's style of filmmaking becomes noticeably more convoluted and dreamlike as the character's journey through this nightmarish trance.  - The Insomniac on the Bridge
  • In this convoluted plot, Diwan (Amrish Puri) , dr Kalidas (Kader Khan) and another secret person run a crime syndicate.  - Saazish (1988 film)
  • In a series of convoluted action sequences, Nacho and Chuey each recovers his knife and battles one of the women.  - Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives
  • The film follows a non-linear convoluted journey through (4) different settings: One which represents today; one which represents protagonist Wes' dreamworld; and the remaining two representing the good times shared with Alison who is Wes' dearest and closest platonic friend.  - All the Days Before Tomorrow
  • After a long and convoluted investigation with false leads, psychics and the mafia, Novick at last unravels the identity of the thief.  - Speedtrap (film)
  • Warren's convoluted scheme involves having reporter Bill Chandler (Van Johnson) temporarily marry Gladys so that she can sue Connie for alienation of affection when an intimate photograph of Bill and Connie Allenbury surfaces, "proving" that the newspaper story is not libelous.  - Easy to Wed
  • A bottom-rung grocery bagger whose neo-incestuous relationship with his addict sister, Natalia, causes him no small amount of grief and disillusionment, Barlam seeks solace in the convoluted wisdom of what few male peers are available, namely his androgynous, alcoholic boss, Oscar, and the sister's simple-minded boyfriend, Zack.  - The Sentimental Engine Slayer
  • Through convoluted means, they manage to send the dismantled weapon back to Britain just before the critical first use of this terrible weapon.  - Battle of the V-1
  • How this convoluted thing gets resolved is the story of the movie.  - Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan
  • This convoluted tale of palace intrigue, suspicion, unreciprocated love, seduction, villainy and piety was interspersed with excellent music.  - Raja Mukthi
  • Given his fondness for convoluted and self-fashioned metaphors in addition to his profuse use of hiperbatón, the quality of the lyrical poetry defamiliarizes and reconfigures all aspects of the original narration (see ostranenie).  - La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea
  • The series centers around the slave's escape, the conflict between the King's army and the slaves, as well as Chris' struggle to make sense of his convoluted situation.  - Garzey's Wing
  • It is a convoluted story that makes you to leave reasoning and logic in cold storage.  - Yuga (film)
  • When Sydney points out that he bought those gloves the same day he met Judy, Roger suddenly remembers how this split-personality came about - it was part of a convoluted scheme to steal the gloves from Judy's department store.  - The One That Got Away (American Dad!)
  • In a meeting to consider whether Orrie is guilty, Wolfe, Archie, and Fred are all unsure, but Saul — via some convoluted reasoning — concludes that he is innocent, and Wolfe undertakes to demonstrate it.  - Death of a Doxy
  • The novel is a fantasy alternate history combining vampires, the Medicis, and the convoluted English politics surrounding Edward IV and Richard III.  - The Dragon Waiting
  • After Lucky's tort lawyer Edward Johnson determines that there's no money to be made in suing Dale, he convinces Lucky to instead sue Strickland Propane after using convoluted jargon to pin blame on Hank, as a Strickland employee, for having referred Lucky to Dale in the first place.  - Lucky's Wedding Suit
  • A somewhat convoluted plot evolves.  - 88 Antop Hill
  • Poet and Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates one of the most convoluted cases of his career.  - A Taste for Death (James novel)
  • Because of their convoluted dealings, the Amnion have revoked a credit voucher they gave Nick, so he has no credit to give The Bill for Davies.  - A Dark and Hungry God Arises
  • A convoluted detective story about a hard-boiled private eye who solves his cases by waiting them out, Pulp evokes Raymond Chandler, an author who lived in Los Angeles and set stories there, as did Bukowski.  - Pulp (novel)
  • Slightly awkwardly, Jones begins a rambling and convoluted explanation - only to find that Godfrey already knows, having received official notification several days before.  - Is There Honey Still for Tea?
  • At the police station, Grandad tells his grandsons a long and convoluted story about why he might have been arrested: in 1936, when his family was poor, Grandad and his friend Nobby Clarke hitchiked all the way to Southampton, got a boat to Tangier, and after a failed attempt to join the French Foreign Legion, became gun-runners during the Spanish Civil War.  - It Never Rains...
  • Lister's explanation is too convoluted for the video camera to handle and it explodes.  - Tikka to Ride
  • The homeowner arrives to see his house in shambles and accidentally undoes the Stooges' convoluted repair work.  - A Plumbing We Will Go
  • During a visit to see her, the children's Icelandic grandmother launches into the grim and convoluted tale of Einar the Lonely, a patient in a far-distant-past version of the same hospital—in "a Gimli we no longer know," as the grandmother puts it.  - Tales from the Gimli Hospital
  • Garrett then manages to orchestrate a meeting between all the guilty parties, and in a masterful display of deductive reasoning, Garrett implicates Karl daPena Jr, Karl daPena Sr, Amiranda Crest, the Domina Willa Dount, Donni Pell, Gorgeous, and others all in a convoluted kidnapping scheme gone horribly wrong.  - Bitter Gold Hearts
  • The story makes much use of flashbacks to tell the convoluted story of the relationships between a group of war veterans who live in the same corner of London, the backbone of the story being the journey of the group from Bermondsey to Margate to scatter the ashes of Jack Dodds into the sea, in accord with his last wishes.  - Last Orders
  • Rapes, murder and prison sentences follow in the convoluted plot.  - Jalitgeola
  • The affair between Alan and Trish became more convoluted and when it came out during the time Browne was writing the show in the summer of 1983, it would lead to Hope Bauer Spaulding becoming an alcoholic as her uncle Ed and grandfather had been.  - Guiding Light (1980–89)
  • In a convoluted scheme to help Wallace, Veronica sets up Logan by placing a bong in his locker.  - Pilot (Veronica Mars)
  • He is believed to have "bought Old Earth" (the home planet of mankind), though the reality of his convoluted financial deals and investments is considerably more complex.  - Norstrilia
  • Trapped by this convoluted logic, Yossarian watches as individuals in the squadron resort to unusual means to cope; lt Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight) concocts elaborate black market schemes while crazed Captain "Aarfy" Aardvark (Charles Grodin) commits murder to silence a girl he raped.  - Catch-22 (film)
  • He is forced to remember many of his repressed experiences of his childhood and young adult years, which, in a convoluted way, are linked to the mysterious incidents involving the old man on the road, the mastiffs, Carson's disappearance, and the mysterious dying stray dog.  - Keepers (novel)
  • With Kyle struggling to comprehend the details of this convoluted story, Cartman grows concerned that he may confess.  - Toilet Paper (South Park)
  • When the narrator finally tries to confront Bruce about leaving his wife, Bruce tells her a long, convoluted story about being an alien sent to Earth to prepare for its destruction in the 24th century.  - The Informers
  • There are hidden passages, a convoluted hedge maze, and other bizarre features of the estate.  - Hollywood Hijinx
  • There, he meets a mysterious man who tells him about a convoluted dream.  - Cities of the Plain (novel)
  • Ukiko then embarks on a convoluted trail, given to her by Akemi, so she can forge a new identity and life for herself.  - Kabuki (comics)
  • Jehane becomes the focus of the attentions of the two men, with a love triangle of sorts forming and becoming more convoluted by the fact that Rodrigo Belmonte is already happily married with two sons, Fernan and Diego.  - The Lions of Al-Rassan
  • In Taker culture, the otherwise automatic process of learning is hindered and convoluted by the institution of formal education, which largely forces students to study topics that they do not apply outside of the classroom and that they therefore largely forget once the information is no longer needed to pass tests or similar evaluations.  - My Ishmael
  • The brainstorming session involves naming a cooking fat substitute through a convoluted “idea-generating” process.  - Tick, Tick... Boom!
  • He journeys to Stateless through a series of convoluted flights to cover a presentation by 27-year-old South African physicist Violet Mosala, supplanting the preproduction by a colleague, Sarah Knight.  - Distress (novel)
  • The story mimics convoluted fantasy plots, using archaic and made up words such as "aberdoxy".  - Progress Quest
  • At the beginning of each episode, off-camera announcer Rod Roddy gives a brief description of the convoluted storyline and remarks, "Confused.  - Soap (TV series)
  • The novel follows Oedipa Maas, a California housewife who becomes entangled in a convoluted historical mystery, when her ex-lover dies having named her as the co-executor of his estate.  - The Crying of Lot 49
  • Soap opera storylines sometimes weave intricate, convoluted and sometimes confusing tales of characters who have affairs, meet mysterious strangers and fall in love, and who commit adultery, all of which keeps audiences hooked on the unfolding story.  - Soap opera

Example sentences for "convoluted" in interesting articles

  • Why would I keep a convoluted 51¢-a-month archival setup when I already have all the cloud storage I could need, on two diverse–yet–incredibly–convenient providers?So I vowed to retrieve my files from Glacier and upload them onto OneDrive this weekend.Wrong Tool For the JobAt this point it became apparent that Glacier had never been a good choice for my use.  - I ended up paying $150 for a single 60GB download from Amazon Glacier
  • I didn’t realize just to what extent lawyers are bound to ask only questions, which leads to some convoluted back-and-forth when a witness doesn’t know what answer to give.There is a glaring lack of evidence in this case.  - Jury Duty
  • John Bennett, who manages the FBI’s high-tech crime units in the San Francisco area, says he can use a warrant to identify a foreign scammer, but it’s a convoluted process that often works only in theory.  - Scammed
  • All in all, it seems convoluted compared to today’s standards.  - I made an NES emulator – What I learned about the original Nintendo
  • This tend to make code convoluted and complicated.  - Erlang and code style
  • Go is a strongly-typed language so it’s possible to build convoluted APIs based on pedantic type distinctions, but the end results will be fragile and ugly — just like in Java or C++.  - Best practices for a new Go developer
  • The difference between the approaches of imperative and functional programming mirrors the difference between code with high and low resistance to change: a convoluted network of ad-hoc interdependent code parts versus a system composed hierarchically of building blocks, following simple rules of composition on every level.  - Why functional programming matters
  • By installing a simple Browserify transformer you could write ES6 code(well ES7 too, hence the name change) and “compile” it to ES5.Now it’s some convoluted mess of plugins that tries to do everything everyone ever wanted, while actually doing nothing out of the box.I removed the section where I called out the creator of Babel by name.  - The Sad State of Web Development
  • By installing a simple Browserify transformer you could write ES6 code(well ES7 too, hence the name change) and “compile” it to ES5.Now it’s some convoluted mess of plugins that tries to do everything everyone ever wanted, while actually doing nothing out of the box.I removed the section where I called out the creator of Babel by name.  - The Sad State of Web Development
  • I too regard it as convoluted but there's probably a reason why it works like that. The coming war on general purpose mankind Posted Jan 1, 2012 11:13 UTC (Sun) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link] > rather than "no, that's impossible, go away" I've heard an anecdote of a Russian programmer in USA who told that to a client's guy who was wishing for something that unreasonable.  - Doctorow: The coming war on general-purpose computation
  • The site is memorialized by a slew of critical Yelp reviews alleging poor customer service, inconsistent delivery, and a flawed user interface.“In all, after spending at least 2 hours getting everything posted and swimming around their convoluted site, I did not post a single item with them and used my good ol buddy CL,” one user wrote.  - Craigslist Is Ugly, Janky, Old School, and Unbeatable

Meaning of "convoluted" in English

  • highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
    Examples
    - Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship
    - convoluted legal language
    - convoluted reasoning
    - the plot was too involved
    - a knotty problem
    - got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering
    - Oh, what a tangled web we weave
    - tortuous legal procedures
    - tortuous negotiations lasting for months
  • rolled longitudinally upon itself

Meaning of "convoluted" in Hindi

  • पेचीदा
  • पेचीदा ( Pechida, pecheedaa)
  • घुमावदार ( Ghumavadar, ghumaavadaar, ghumawadar)

Synonyms of "convoluted"

  • tangled
  • involved
  • byzantine
  • tortuous
  • knotty

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