Definition
full of windings and intricate turnings : tortuous
Examples
"Dr. X almost never left the boundaries of Old Shanghai, which was part of a separate district; more to the point, he stuck to a small but anfractuous subregion…." — Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age, 1995
"The anfractuous remainder of the plot is a booby trap for anyone trying to explain it." — James MacKillop, Syracuse (New York) New Times, November 9, 2011
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