TORTUOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tortuously mean? 

• TORTUOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb TORTUOUSLY has 2 senses:

1. with twists and turns

2. in a tortuous manner

  Familiarity information: TORTUOUSLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TORTUOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With twists and turns

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a tortuous manner

Context example:

tortuously haggling over the price

 Context examples 

There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden, old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, fashionably and keeping in the corners—and a great number of single girls dancing individualistically or relieving the orchestra for a moment of the burden of the banjo or the traps.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)