twistical

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释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Crooked; tortuous.

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    1871, John William De Forest, Overland, New York: Sheldon, Chapter 15, p. 79, He had queer twistical ways of reasoning which often proved the contrary of what he seemed to want to prove;

  2. 2.

    Perverse; unfair; dishonest.

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    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.

词源

From twist + -ical.

来源：wiktionary