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tortuous: not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"; marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track"

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crunched collapse: reduced to small pieces; "crunched nuts"

torsional collapse

asymmetrical collapse: irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with an crooked hemline"; characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components

curved collapse: having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend; "the curved tusks of a walrus"; "his curved lips suggested a smile but his eyes were hard"

asymmetric collapse

twisty collapse

lopsided collapse: having one side lower or smaller or lighter than the other

whorled collapse

anfractuous collapse: full of twists and turns; "anfractuous cliffs"

Johnsonian collapse

orotund collapse: (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels"

undulant collapse

sinuous collapse

declamatory collapse

billowy collapse: characterized by great swelling waves or surges; "billowy storm clouds"; "the restless billowing sea"; "surging waves"

sprung collapse

sigmoid collapse: of or relating to the sigmoid flexure in the large intestine; curved in two directions (like the letter S)

high sounding collapse

involuted collapse

crumpled collapse

curvaceous collapse

incurved collapse

high flying collapse

bedizened collapse

unsymmetrical collapse

curvy collapse: having curves; "a settee with only one curvy end"

circuitous collapse: marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend"

flexuous collapse: having turns or windings; "the flexuous bed of the stream"

winding collapse

overelaborate collapse

showy collapse: displaying brilliance and virtuosity; marked by ostentation but often tasteless; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad"

one sided collapse

grandiloquent collapse: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek; lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"

ostentatious collapse: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"; of a display that is tawdry or vulgar

rhetorical collapse: concerned with effect or style of writing and speaking; "a rhetorical question is one asked solely to produce an effect (especially to make an assertion) rather than to elicit a reply"; of or relating to rhetoric; "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford

garish collapse

circular collapse: an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers"; marked by or moving in a circle

overdone collapse: cooked too long but still edible

highfalutin collapse

grandiose collapse: impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval; affectedly genteel

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