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Convoluted   /kˈɑnvəlˌutəd/   Listen
Convoluted

adjective
1.
Rolled longitudinally upon itself.  Synonym: convolute.
2.
Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious.  Synonyms: Byzantine, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous.  "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"






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"Convoluted" Quotes from Famous Books



... summit of it. Then I reach the altar, gropingly, unable yet to distinguish forms clearly. But the priest, sliding back screen after screen, pours in light upon the gilded brasses and the inscriptions; and I look for the image of the Deity or presiding Spirit between the altar- groups of convoluted candelabra. And I see—only a mirror, a round, pale disk of polished metal, and my own face therein, and behind this mockery of me a phantom of the ...
— Glimpses of an Unfamiliar Japan - First Series • Lafcadio Hearn



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