Contortionate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Contortionate is an adjective meaning contorted or contorting.
Meaning
contorted or contorting.
Example Sentences
So it’s hard not to be amused at Nina L. Khrushcheva’s contortionate attempts to recruit him as a sociopolitical figurehead for the land of his birth in her earnest and urgent “Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics.”
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include twisted, tortile, tortive, pretzelled, tortuous, anfractuous.
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