tortuous

Having or marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting.

Not straightforward; circuitous; devious.

Highly involved; complex.

An obsolete variant of tortious.

Full of twists or turns; winding; hence, crooked; zigzag.

Oblique: applied in astrology to the six zodiacal signs which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.

Figuratively, circuitous; devious; irregular; crooked: especially in a moral sense.

Synonyms Sinuous, serpentine, curvilinear, circuitous, indirect, roundabout.

Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding.

Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.