tortuous

Adjective

• 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
    

• highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
  • the Byzantine tax structure
    
  • Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship
    
  • convoluted legal language
    
  • convoluted reasoning
    
  • the plot was too involved
    
  • a knotty problem
    
  • got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering
    
  • Oh, what a tangled web we weave- Sir Walter Scott
    
  • tortuous legal procedures
    
  • tortuous negotiations lasting for months
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  twisting , twisty , winding , voluminous , Byzantine , convoluted , involved , knotty , tangled