tortuous (adj.)
- affected
- ambagious
- ambiguous
- anfractuous
- askew
- asymmetric
- bent
- billowing
- billowy
- bowed
- circuitous
- circumlocutory
- cockeyed
- complicated
- contorted
- convoluted
- cranky
- crazy
- crooked
- crumpled
- curled
- curling
- curvaceous
- curvate
- curved
- curvilineal
- curvilinear
- curving
- curvy
- deceptive
- declamatory
- devious
- distorted
- elevated
- flamboyant
- flaming
- flashy
- flexuous
- fulsome
- garish
- gaudy
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-flown
- high-sounding
- highfalutin
- incurvate
- incurved
- indirect
- intricate
- involute
- involved
- irregular
- labyrinthine
- lofty
- lopsided
- lurid
- magniloquent
- mazy
- meandering
- meretricious
- misleading
- one-sided
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overdone
- overwrought
- pedantic
- pompous
- pretentious
- recurvate
- recurved
- rhetorical
- roundabout
- ruffled
- sensational
- sensationalistic
- sententious
- serpentine
- showy
- sinuate
- sinuous
- snaky
- sonorous
- sprung
- stilted
- tall
- tricky
- turning
- twisted
- twisting
- twisty
- undulant
- unsymmetric
- wandering
- warped
- wavy
- whorled
- winding
- zigzag