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91devious — I adjective aberrant, ambagious, artful, circuitous, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, designing, deviating, deviative, devius, errant, excursive, foxy, indirect, insidious, labyrinthine, roundabout, scheming, serpentine, sinuous, sly,… …
92involved — I (a party to) adjective absorbed, absorbed with, added as a defendant, added as a party, caught up in, contributing, devoted to, engaged, engrossed in, immersed in, implied, intent, intent on, occupied, sued, taken up with II (complex) adjective …
93labyrinthine — I adjective ambagious, ambagitory, baffling, bewildering, chaotic, circuitous, complex, complicated, confounding, confusing, crooked, deviating, difficult, digressive, entangled, excursive, flexuous, full of curves, full of turns, impeditus,… …
94sinuous — I adjective ambagious, ambagitory, anfractuous, circuitous, coiled, complex, complicated, convolute, convoluted, convolutional, crooked, curved, curvilinear, deviating, deviative, devious, entangled, flexuous, indirect, intricate, involute,… …
95tortueux — tortueux, euse [ tɔrtɥø, øz ] adj. • 1314; tortuous « compliqué » h. 1200; lat. tortuosus, de tortus, de torquere « tordre » 1 ♦ Qui fait des tours et des détours, présente des courbes irrégulières. ⇒ sinueux. « un labyrinthe de ruelles emmêlées …
96Prison of Desire — Prison of Desire …
97climb — I n. a difficult, hard; easy; gradual; rough, rugged; steep; tortuous climb II v. 1) (d; intr.) to climb aboard (to climb aboard a raft) 2) (d; intr.) to climb down (to climb down a hill) 3) (d; intr.) to climb onto, upon (the child climbed onto… …
98crooked — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. bent, curved, angular, sinuous, winding, askew, zigzag, twisted, warped; false, dishonest, fraudulent, deceptive, sneaking; oblique, aslant, distorted, awry. See improbity, distortion. II (Roget s… …
99devious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. See deviation, circuity, deception. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Indirect] Syn. circuitous, roundable, tortuous, evasive; see indirect . 2. [Crafty] Syn. foxy, insidious, shrewd, underhanded; see… …
100sinuous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. winding, curvy; devious, convoluted. See circuity, deviation, deception. Ant., straight[forward]. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Twisted] Syn. crooked, circuitous, curved; see indirect , twisted 1 . 2.… …
