tortuously haggling over the price. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a tortuous path. ,tortuous negotiations lasting for months. From Dictionary.com.
They were both charged with what the lawyers might call tortuously doing a tortuous act. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty Years Since: An Address Before the Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina] Reference
The route switch-backed tortuously up the mountain. From Wordnik.com. [Never Come Down]
A head appeared tortuously from under the car-top below. From Wordnik.com. [Flappers and Philosophers] Reference
Slowly, tortuously, he at last began to write an answer. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]
The markings seemed to writhe tortuously in the dim light. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and the Emerald Lotus]
"Do you?" demanded Perry, twisting himself tortuously round. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
“Do you?” demanded Perry, twisting himself tortuously round. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
But we always did it, sometimes tortuously, sometimes hilariously. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of Blue and Gold « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
This can be fast or tortuously slow, depending on the art director. From Wordnik.com. [ocular] Reference
Claudia remained tortuously polite, refusing to unbend and spill gossip. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
From there, the list should also include the witty if tortuously inconsistent. From Wordnik.com. [Who should receive Emmy nominations? Tough call] Reference
Finally they are being pushed slowly and tortuously into the public spotlight. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
The Islamic Republic does it in its own way, tortuously, but it is backing down. From Wordnik.com. [Bernard-Henri Lévy: Sakineh, Ahmadinejad, and the "Insolents"] Reference
I go beneath ground tortuously, as if a warder carried a lamp from cell to cell. From Wordnik.com. [The Waves] Reference
We get talking when he asks me, tortuously, how much cigarettes cost at Jerry's. From Wordnik.com. [Nickel and Dimed]
Conscience, morality and sheer logistics tortuously tangled the paths before him. From Wordnik.com. [Boiling a Frog]
Absolutely nothingnew here that we haven't tortuously lived through, seen and heard. From Wordnik.com. [W movie Waste] Reference
I've looked it over far and wide and found it wanting, deeply and tortuously wanting. From Wordnik.com. [Debunking Debunking Christianity Christianity] Reference
The case portends a years-long slog through tortuously complex international case law. From Wordnik.com. [Switzerland's Reckoning] Reference
"Only very tortuously and dishonestly," says Joel McNally of the Madison Capital Times. From Wordnik.com. [WI-08] Reference
Of roads there were none, and the hills were crags which often had to be skirted tortuously. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Often in these matters, trade negotiators will negotiate tortuously for a long period of time. From Wordnik.com. [Interview - Phoenix Television, Beijing - Transcript - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs] Reference
Through them one can make ones way only tortuously, cuffing with the machete or panga, stroke by stroke. From Wordnik.com. [Explorers Of Gor]
I pity writers who tortuously labor over their prose, or who can never be satisfied with any accomplishment. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-12] Reference
We came out of it into a forest of close-growing, coniferous trees, through which the trail wound tortuously. From Wordnik.com. [Dwellers in the Mirage] Reference
Then he cries because he doesn't want to get in the car and have to endure the tortuously curvy back roads home. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Spiegelman: Sunday Bloody Sunday (Happy Mother's Day!)] Reference
There's a way to do just that -- but you won't succeed in trying to deceive us with tortuously twisted arguments. From Wordnik.com. [Supremes to Hear Second Amendment Case] Reference
Sarufutogawa — a lovely river, which winds tortuously through the forests and mountains in unspeakable loveliness. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
Foyle opened the drainage petcock in the combustion chamber of the jet and tortuously filled the chamber with fuel by hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars My Destination]
To no one unacquainted with him did he seem what he actually was-brave, tortuously subtle, amoral, enormously intelligent, loyal. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
On-going "dialogue", though tortuously difficult at times has certainly made a positive difference there. .nothing else ever did. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The miniature train, edging its way along the track, appeared no more than a mere speck as it crept tortuously up towards the top. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
The road weaves tortuously and precipitously up, past houses with latticed mautak walls, perched upon pilings on 60-degree slopes. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting for the Plague] Reference
It was like being on a roller coaster ride, but a ride that spent most of its time creaking tortuously through a subterranean tunnel. From Wordnik.com. [On leaving the bench] Reference
The Democrats are tortuously, and to minor (if any) effect, trying to use a bureaucratic backdoor to promote some basic social progress. From Wordnik.com. [Off the Grid: Politics and Power] Reference
I've been complaining for a few weeks now that this season of Survivor has been tortuously dull after the crackling first three episodes. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Survivor 21: Infants vs. Senior Citizens : They Baffle Science!] Reference
Still, its a lot easier to jot notes on top of your pages than to do it the Kindle way and tortuously tap out text on the chiclet keyboard. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets] Reference
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