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

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

  • Ralph is left behind, captured and brought back to the warehouse for a tortuous interrogation.  - Runaway Nightmare
  • The novel's storyline explores tortuous conditions at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, and centers around aS.  - Detained (novel)
  • Cockpit is a debriefing after a long, tortuous mission.  - Cockpit (novel)
  • Also, another person returns to the village: engineer Victor Manuel Galindez, a handsome man who hides a tortuous past.  - María del Mar
  • Attempting to live solitary lives, the tortuous remembrance of their past lives causes them to forget everything and rush out into the desert.  - Thais (1917 film)
  • Once the tortuous ballad entitled "When Philip's There" has ended, Greg is asked to give suggestions.  - Meet the Parents (1992 film)
  • Gregorio’s tortuous relationship with his girlfriend is now inherited by Manuel; he becomes involved with his late friend’s girlfriend.  - The Night Buffalo
  • The research done by the Fuentes on Muta 6500 years earlier had been in pursuit of that goal—but had gone horribly wrong, dooming Fuentes and Greenstrider and Unity individuals to a disembodied but tortuous existence.  - Radiant (novel)
  • He is especially tortuous on Beau's class of recruits, hoping this will get them to reveal to him which of the men is the author of an anonymous letter Dagineau has received threatening his life.  - Beau Geste (1966 film)
  • Gromek realizes what is and that Armstrong is a double agent, and as Gromek is calling the police, a tortuous fight scene commences that ends with Gromek being killed by Armstrong and the farmer's wife (Carolyn Conwell).  - Torn Curtain

Example sentences for "tortuous" in interesting articles

  • Once it’s served, the information gleaned makes its way back to Bennett by the same tortuous route.  - Scammed
  • She and Branden began a tortuous love affair, and her theories had an intense impact on the young psychotherapist.  - How Roy Baumeister challenged the idea of self-esteem (2014)
  • It’s also about tennis on the professional ramp up, a kind of tortuous training.  - A Lost 1996 Interview with David Foster Wallace
  • The development path to a "European GPS" has been a tortuous one.  - Galileo satellites experiencing multiple clock failures
  • This tortuous workflow inspired a Hacker News user to make the case for more flexible open-content licenses such as Creative Commons and the GNU General Public License. Lim told me he doesn’t mind emailing authors.  - Hacker Monthly: best of the Internet, printed out, and its turning a profit
  • In addition to the consumer grievances about shoddy products (one woman, for instance, claimed that the colon cleansers she ordered made her rectum bleed), the FTC’s investigation revealed in vivid detail the tortuous paths Willms made customers travel when they wished to cancel or receive refunds.With few exceptions, a “free trial” from Willms included hidden extras like a “Comprehensive Weight Loss ebook” or a club membership, each of which carried separate monthly fees, according to investigators.  - Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet
  • In addition to the consumer grievances about shoddy products (one woman, for instance, claimed that the colon cleansers she ordered made her rectum bleed), the FTC’s investigation revealed in vivid detail the tortuous paths Willms made customers travel when they wished to cancel or receive refunds.With few exceptions, a “free trial” from Willms included hidden extras like a “Comprehensive Weight Loss ebook” or a club membership, each of which carried separate monthly fees, according to investigators.  - Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet
  • In addition to the consumer grievances about shoddy products (one woman, for instance, claimed that the colon cleansers she ordered made her rectum bleed), the FTC’s investigation revealed in vivid detail the tortuous paths Willms made customers travel when they wished to cancel or receive refunds.With few exceptions, a “free trial” from Willms included hidden extras like a “Comprehensive Weight Loss ebook” or a club membership, each of which carried separate monthly fees, according to investigators.  - Jesse Willms, the Dark Lord of the Internet (2014)

Meaning of "tortuous" in English

  • not straightforward
  • 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
  • marked by repeated turns and bends
    Examples
    - winding roads are full of surprises
    - had to steer the car down a twisty track

Meaning of "tortuous" in Hindi

  • पेचीदा ( Pechida, pecheedaa)
  • बलदार ( Baladar, baladaar)
  • वक्र ( Vakr, wakr)
  • जटिल ( Jatil, zatil)
  • कुटिल ( Kutil)

Synonyms of "tortuous"

  • knotty
  • voluminous
  • twisting
  • convoluted
  • twisty
  • tangled
  • involved
  • byzantine
  • winding

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