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Definition of Tortuously
1. Adverb. With twists and turns.
2. Adverb. In a tortuous manner. "Tortuously haggling over the price"
Definition of Tortuously
1. Adverb. In a tortuous manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tortuously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tortuously
Literary usage of Tortuously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack: From the History of the First U.S. Grinnell by Elisha Kent Kane (1815)
"They were of majestic proportions; and as we wound our way tortuously among them,
one after another would come into the field of view, like a temple set to ..."
2. Encyclopedia of Business Law and Forms ... for All the States and Canada by Hugh Mortimer Spalding (1903)
"381 ; 4 McLean C. as a wrong-doer.0 Where personal property has been tortuously
taken and turned into money or money's worth, the party injured may proceed ..."
3. Holden's Manual of the dissection of the human body by Luther Holden (1893)
"It ascends tortuously beneath the posterior belly of the ... It now ascends
tortuously near the corner of the mouth and the ala of the nose, ..."
4. Manual of the dissection of the human body by Luther Holden, John Langton (1885)
"It ascends tortuously beneath the posterior belly of the digastricus and ...
It now ascends tortuously near the corner of the mouth and the ala of the nose, ..."
5. Diseases of Women: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners by John Clarence Webster (1898)
"The other and larger branch winds tortuously up the side of the corpus uteri as
far as ... The branches to the uterus run under the peritoneum tortuously. ..."
6. Hymenomycetes Britannici: British Fungi (Hymenomycetes) by John Stevenson (1886)
"... punctate, somewhat tortuously lobed. It is properly developed only in very
damp weather, and forms numerous, rounded, soft, pulpy lobes, ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1839)
"At the same time it may be remarked, that every fibrous cord, without exception,
contains an artery of proportionate size, which runs in it tortuously, ..."
8. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"^WAK, to go tortuously, be crooked ; whence also Skt. vault, to go tortuously,
be crooked, vakra, crooked, Lat. vacillare, to vacillate, «oras, crooked, &c. ..."
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