sinuous

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Were the Niagara centre above the fall sinuous, the gorge would obediently follow its sinuosities.

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  1. adjective Characterized by many curves or turns; winding: a sinuous stream.
  2. adjective Characterized by supple and lithe movements: the sinuous grace of a dancer.
  3. adjective Not direct; devious.

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  • Here artistically sinuous, there fiercely rectangular, they could be either, or both. —  AnalogSFF,July-August2008
  • He is partial to "sinuous, flowing lines" on the grounds that they are easier to maintain.
  • Or is something more sinuous, more elusive than sadism at work here? —  Home | Mail Online
  • Impressive crowds of passionate Basque fans lined the upper reaches of the narrow Ixua climb and the leading pair widened their gap to 1: 28 on the sinuous, narrow descent. —  VeloNews | The Journal of Competitive Cycling
  • They had gone snaking, generation after generation, from the days of the serpent worship of old, it may be back to the old Serpent himself; and this tawny, sinuous, active thing of evil, this boy, without the least sense of sympathy for any pain, who devoured a cobra alive with as much indifference as he had just shown in petting it, was the result. —  The Gypsies
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Latin sinuōsus, from sinus, curve.

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  1. =F. sinueux =Spanish Portuguese Italian sinuoso, from Latin sinuosus, full of bendings or folds, from sinus, a bend, fold: see sinus.
 

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/ˈsɪnjuəs/
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