1 (winding) [+path, road, process] tortuoso The parties must now go through the tortuous process of picking their candidates ...the tortuous path of true love This appears the only way of restoring peace to the country. It is a long and tortuous path He would have arrived at the right conclusion, albeit by a tortuous route ...these long and tortuous negotiations aimed at ending the conflict ...throughout the course of the long, often tortuous history of the Jewish Diaspora
2 (convoluted) [+sentence, essay, logic] enrevesado Their sentences were long and tortuous, full of grammatical inversions and subordinate clauses ...lawyers, writing in a language full of tortuous constructions He wrote tortuous [essays] for obscure journals. She told her pupil that he was using tortuous logic
