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snaky
Twisty
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  1. Twisty
  2. Formed of or entwined with snakes
  3. Having a snakelike form; serpentine; winding; twisting
sinuous
Sinuate:
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  1. Sinuate:
  2. Characterized by supple and lithe movements:
  3. Bending, winding, or curving in and out; wavy; serpentine
deceitful
Tending to deceive; apt to lie or cheat
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  1. Tending to deceive; apt to lie or cheat
  2. Deceptive in multiple ways
  3. Deliberately misleading or cheating
devious
Deviating; not straightforward or honest, not frank; not standard.
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  1. Deviating; not straightforward or honest, not frank; not standard.
  2. Departing from the correct or accepted way; erring:
  3. Deviating from the proper or usual course; going astray
perverse
Willfully opposing or resisting what is right, expected, or reasonable:
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  1. Willfully opposing or resisting what is right, expected, or reasonable:
  2. Deviating from what is considered right or good; wrong, improper, etc. or corrupt, wicked, etc.; specif., sexually perverted
  3. Obstinately disobedient or difficult; intractable
tricky
Adept at using deception
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  1. Adept at using deception
  2. Hard to deal with, complicated
  3. Requiring caution or skill:
anfractuous
Full of twists, turns, and windings; roundabout; tortuous
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  1. Full of twists, turns, and windings; roundabout; tortuous
flexuous
Bending or winding alternately from side to side; sinuous.
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  1. Bending or winding alternately from side to side; sinuous.
  2. Winding or wavering
meandrous
(Of a path) winding, windy, having many bends.
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  1. (Of a path) winding, windy, having many bends.
serpentine
Of or resembling a serpent, as in form or movement; sinuous.
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  1. Of or resembling a serpent, as in form or movement; sinuous.
  2. (Geology, botany) Of or characteristic of serpentine rocks or the plants that grow there.
  3. Coiled or twisted; winding
sinuous
Having curves in alternate directions; meandering.
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  1. Having curves in alternate directions; meandering.
  2. Not straightforward; devious; crooked
  3. Bending, winding, or curving in and out; wavy; serpentine
snaky
Relating to or characteristic of snakes.
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  1. Relating to or characteristic of snakes.
  2. Twisty
  3. Having a snakelike form; serpentine; winding; twisting
winding
Spiral or helical
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  1. Spiral or helical
  2. That winds, turns, coils, spirals, etc.
  3. Twisting, turning or sinuous
anfractuous
Full of twists, turns, and windings; roundabout; tortuous
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  1. Full of twists, turns, and windings; roundabout; tortuous
circuitous
Being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course:
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  1. Being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course:
  2. Characterized by indirectness, evasiveness, or complexity, as in action or language:
  3. Roundabout; indirect; devious
circular
Moving in or forming a circle.
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  1. Moving in or forming a circle.
  2. In the shape of a circle; round
  3. Using a premise to prove a conclusion that in turn is used to prove the premise:
devious
Departing from the correct or accepted way; erring:
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  1. Departing from the correct or accepted way; erring:
  2. Away from a main road or course; distant or removed.
  3. Deviating from the straight or direct course; roundabout:
indirect
Not directly planned for; secondary:
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  1. Not directly planned for; secondary:
  2. Reporting the exact or approximate words of another with such changes as are necessary to bring the original statement into grammatical conformity with the sentence in which it is included:
  3. Not direct
oblique
(Anatomy) Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal:
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  1. (Anatomy) Situated in a slanting position; not transverse or longitudinal:
  2. (Bot.) Having the sides unequal, as some leaves
  3. (Geom.) With its axis not perpendicular to its base
roundabout
Encircling; enclosing; surrounding
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  1. Encircling; enclosing; surrounding
  2. Characterized by indirectness, evasiveness, or vagueness:
  3. Not straight or straightforward; indirect; circuitous
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Sentence Examples

  • The streets are narrow, tortuous and inaccessible to carriages.

  • These rivers collect the drainage of the northern slopes of the Himalayas, and convey it, by long and tortuous although opposite routes, into India.

  • A striking contrast exists between the Moorish quarter, with its tortuous lanes and Oriental architecture, and the modern quarter, with its rectangular streets and wide open squares, frequently bordered with trees and adorned with fountains.

  • from its source, flows past the town of Sora, and has a very tortuous course from thence to the sea at Minturnae; its lower valley is for the most part of considerable width, and forms a fertile tract of considerable extent, bordered on both sides by hills covered with vines, olives and fruit trees, and thickly studded with towns and villages.

  • Though tortuous of access, the channels afford a clear passage of 27-35 ft.

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