twistical

“All it would take was a twistical squint off his eyes.”

Simon & Schuster: At Swim, Two Boys

“Ordinaryward, the Supreme Court is all right; but Negroward, twistical.”

Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century

“In the last war with Britain, the Constitution frigate was close in once on the shores of Ireland, a lookin arter some marchant ships, and she took on board a pilot; well, he was a deep, sly, twistical lookin chap, as you een amost ever seed.”

The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville

“Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hyperquizzitistical.”

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5

“Colonel Cross was twistical; but I did not know how to help myself, when he came and said that he must have money, and could not afford to wait for it; but that if I would give another mortgage for three times as much as the principal and interest came to on the whole farm, he would lift the other, as he knew a man in Wetherville who would advance it if I would make further improvements, so as to accommodate all the company that would like to come.”

Tales of Glauber-Spa

“In his mind’s eye he saw the curate and the queer twistical look he’d have.”

Simon & Schuster: At Swim, Two Boys

“B. is all right, but earthward he is rather twistical. ”

Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century

“In the last war with Britain, the Constitution frigate was close in once on the shores of Ireland, a-lookin 'arter some marchant ships, and she took on board a pilot; well, he was a deep, sly, twistical lookin' chap, as you e'enamost ever seed.”

The Clockmaker