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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Tortuously (0.00910 detik)
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English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: tortuous
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: tortuously
tortuously
adv : in a tortuous manner;
“tortuously haggling over the price”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Tortuously
Tortuous
\Tor"tu*ous\, a. [OE. tortuos, L. tortuosus, fr. tortus
a twisting, winding, fr. torquere, tortum, to twist: cf. F.
tortueux. See
Torture.]
1. Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding;
as, a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
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The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the
side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
--Macaulay.
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2. Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous;
deceitful.
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That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the
battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the
Jakobites. --Macaulay.
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3. Injurious: tortious. [Obs.]
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4. (Astrol.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the
zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most
rapidly and obliquely. [Obs.] --Skeat.
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Infortunate ascendent tortuous. --Chaucer.
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Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv. --
Tor"tu*ous*ness, n.
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