tortuous vs torturous
Definitions
adjective
- not straightforward
- marked by repeated turns and bends
- highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
Examples
The road towards qualification still seems like it is going to be another long and tortuous one.
In foreign policy, he has Obama's specific mandate to monitor the wind-down of the American troop involvement in Iraq and to baby-sit its tortuous journey to political stability.
With superb boatmanship he threaded the narrow, tortuous channel which no craft larger than a whaleboat could negotiate, until the shoals and patches showed seaward and they grounded on the quiet, rippling beach.
Definitions
adjective
- extremely painful
Examples
And while this particular statement may lack the torturous semantics of its predecessors, it still adds up to in-your-face guff.
MGM (Male Genital Mutilation) is a cruel, painful, mutilating, torturous, violative act without valid medical benefit that not only contravenes the UN Charter but also violates every principle of human kindness and medical ethics in every civilized country in the world.
It was a bid to create a fuzzy feeling about the pairing, attempting to make it look like theirs hasn't just been a torturous marriage of convenience.
