Tortuous
Tortuous , adjective
[Old English tortuos, Latin tortuosus, from tortus a twisting, winding, from torquere, tortum, to twist: compare French tortueux. See Torture.]
1.
Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick.
2.
Figuratively: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
That course became somewhat lesstortuous, when the battle of the Boyne had cowed the spirit of the Jakobites.
3.
Injurious: tortious. [Obsolete]
4.
(Astrology) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. [Obsolete] — Skeat
Infortunate ascendent tortuous.