Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a twisting manner; by twisting or being twisted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
twisting way; with twisting movements or a twisted shape.
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Examples
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Being in mid-leap when he received the blow Jerry was twistingly somersaulted sidewise before he struck the deck on his back.
CHAPTER VIII 2010
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The report -- with the tongue-twistingly long name the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development -- stressed in no uncertain terms the importance of agroecology and small-scale farming and the need for sustainable management of livestock, forest, and fisheries.
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The report -- with the tongue-twistingly long name the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development -- stressed in no uncertain terms the importance of agroecology and small-scale farming and the need for sustainable management of livestock, forest, and fisheries.
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I was mildly disappointed on my day in Wales not to find anything odder than the occasional w in an odd place -- nothing tongue-twistingly unpronounceable.
The girl who kicked the publisher's keister for misplacing an apostrophe Peter Rozovsky 2010
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The report -- with the tongue-twistingly long name the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development -- stressed in no uncertain terms the importance of agroecology and small-scale farming and the need for sustainable management of livestock, forest, and fisheries.
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Zodiac Tower is a puzzle game of sorts – a bit like Tetris, a bit like every other puzzle game we've featured as a Slackerjack, a bit like Mystic Meg – and it's so mind-twistingly fiendish that you'll be coming back to it again and again.
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Not only do they not name the online service, but then they go and call the controller the tongue-twistingly horrible "Sixaxis".
Sony's Online "Strategy" Greg Tannahill 2006
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"Don't move a muscle," Ki-Gor commanded, and started up the tangle of vines that coursed twistingly up the huge tree trunk.
Death Stalks The Ruins Adams, Stephen 2005
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She went twistingly down, slowly, almost thoughtfully, and opened her mouth, oh, in a moan that remained unsounded.
THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001
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She went twistingly down, slowly, almost thoughtfully, and opened her mouth, oh, in a moan that remained unsounded.
THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001
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