full of twists and turns (typically used to describe winding dangerous roads) excessively long and complex (typically describing a convoluted argument)
Nick S
@holgate.permanent.red
dodging the bait, there was a decent episode of On Point last month on road trips which mentioned Eisenhower's tortuous 60+ day DC-SF journey in 1919, which tells you how getting anywhere by road in the US with a map to guide you is basically only a hundred years old.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/06/29/history-american-road-trip
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The Mirror
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A mum faces a tortuous 30-day wait to discover if she will be £12million richer — after a shopkeeper binned her ticket.
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第一の手記.
@talesofmacabre.bsky.social
the snow seemed like a dirty bandage hiding the open wounds of the city, hiding those irregular gashes of haphazard streets and tortuous alleys, courtyards and occasional plots of bare ground, that form the only beauty to be found in the panorama of our
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