contortionist

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Wow, what a contortionist -- first he says a woman should have the choice, but then he says the state should have the choice.

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  1. noun One who contorts, especially an acrobat capable of twisting into extraordinary positions.

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  • The playground wasn't crowded; the gate was padlocked shut and anybody wishing to play here either had to squeeze through the gap like a contortionist or be willing to scale a twenty-foot chain-link fence. —  The Vanished Man
  • Jimmerson backed away in case the man got sick, watching as the rocking intensified and des Laumes began to jackknife at the waist like a mad contortionist, his forehead driving impossibly against the floorboards, a piglike grunting issuing from somewhere deep inside him. —  EBSCOhost
  • His great frame seemed to turn to rubber, for be doubled backward in the fashion of a skilled contortionist, and his toes found the knots that secured his rope bindings. —  019 - Fear Cay
  • He had known that he had an extraordinary power over his own mind; in a way he was like a contortionist, who can make a shoulder muscle, or a thigh or part of an arm, jump and twitch individually. —  The Dreaming Jewels
  • Lili had been trained young, East Germany, no surprise, as a contortionist. —  Blevins, Meredith - (Szabo 02) - The Vanished Priestess
 

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/kənˈtɔrʃənɪst/
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