Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Middle English form of
tortoise .
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Examples
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A tortous and circular food chain is shown in this early 2005 Flash movies by Jossie Malis at Zumbakamera.
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You get the sense they're ad libbing but I think they'll do a much better job of ad libbing than we've seen in SF series in the past (X Files being a prime tortous example).
Getting Medieveal on Reality's Ass Lou Anders 2006
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The skin on my back had being torn by the tortous whipping.
Archive 2008-02-01 princesa 2008
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The skin on my back had being torn by the tortous whipping.
The Whipping princesa 2008
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As the UKIP case makes its tortous way through the court hearing completed, decision due in the first week of August other parties' finances are looking a little moth-eaten, too.
Archive 2007-07-01 Richard 2007
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As the UKIP case makes its tortous way through the court hearing completed, decision due in the first week of August other parties' finances are looking a little moth-eaten, too.
Party funds Helen 2007
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That the characters here interpreted _Eb_ and _Caban_ are the same as those given by Landa, and in the Manuscript Troano we have positive evidence in the tortous [TN-6] line in the outer space, of which we have already given an explanation.
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i would say that tortous would be more of an adjective that describes an act which may have the characteristics of a tort when we say tortious interference we are saying that the act of interfering in a contract is in itself a tortWilliam A. Kennedy-Las Vegas LawyerQuote
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"he could have proportioned the tortous canal" changed to
New observations on the natural history of bees Fran��ois Huber 1790
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