Twistical
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Twistical is an adjective meaning (archaic, colloquial, regional) Crooked; tortuous.
Meaning
(archaic, colloquial, regional) Crooked; tortuous.
More Meanings
- (archaic, colloquial, regional) Perverse; unfair; dishonest.
Example Sentences
[…] then he showed the white of his teeth in a twistical smile.
[…] if you can fix Melinda Smoot for behaving so twistical to her, I’ll thank you forever.
‘There’s many still believes a priest could make a toad of you. All it would take was a twistical squint off his eyes. […]’
1836, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker, Halifax, NS: J. Howe, p. 111, […] well, he was a deep, sly, twistical lookin chap, as you een amost ever seed.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tortuous, tortive, wrong, twiddly, throward, winding.
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