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Перевод: tortuous

[прилагательное]
извилистый; уклончивый; неискренний

Тезаурус:

1. He now knew, too, what had happened, through the contrivings of that tortuous, ingenious mind, to the last exiled Emperor of the dynasty of Byzantium, and all his grown sons.
2. Why then omit to inform viewers that Baker's other tests, involving bus loads of students direction-finding after tortuous, blindfold journeys, have been repeated in the United States with negative outcome?
3. If we accept that , we have to accept the slow, tortuous, frustrating business of working and being effective within that democracy, however inadequate it may be.
4. This is the stream that falls into Gaping Gill on the moor above as Fell Beck and, after a tortuous journey through the bowels of the earth, returns to daylight here with the name of Clapham Beck.
5. Once in the water the diving followed a tortuous corkscrewing route reaching a maximum depth of 34.5 metres.
6. The canalicular system consists of tortuous invaginations of the platelet wall running through the platelet cytoplasm and therefore greatly increasing the total surface area of platelet/ plasma contact (Behnke, 1970).
7. The path to data protection legislation in Britain was a long and tortuous one.
8. Fortune owed Fred Winter a big favour and provided it, for the next part of this tortuous course was quite straight, with four fences to be jumped, and this at least gave the jockey time to work out how to respond to the calamity.
9. Brian Everthorpe led Robyn a tortuous route through streets lined with factories and warehouses, many of them closed down, some displaying "For Sale" or "For Lease" signs on them, some derelict beyond the hope of restoration, with snow blowing through their smashed windows.
10. He led her up another tortuous steel staircase, its steps worn and buckled, across improvised bridges and rickety gangways, up higher and higher, until they were crouching next to the very source of the molten metal.
11. But our aim was Jack's Rake, a tortuous climb running right across the cliff.
12. The route from gene to observed effect can be very tortuous and has been worked out in only a very few cases so far.
13. AFTER six years of tortuous legal battles, Mr Thomas Mathew was yesterday granted permission in the High Court for a full trial in his action against the solicitor who held his brother's will for 4 million.