Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat twisted or crooked, physically, mentally, or morally; odd; questionably honest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Slang, U. S. Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest.
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- adjective archaic
crooked ;tortuous ; hence,perverse ;unfair ;dishonest .
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Examples
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All it would take was a twistical squint off his eyes.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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All it would take was a twistical squint off his eyes.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Ordinaryward, the Supreme Court is all right; but Negroward, twistical.
Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Mifflin Wistar Gibbs 1885
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In the last war with Britain, the Constitution frigate was close in once on the shores of Ireland, a lookin arter some marchant ships, and she took on board a pilot; well, he was a deep, sly, twistical lookin chap, as you een amost ever seed.
The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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Mr. Kant pantheistical, Mr. Carlyle twistical, and Mr. Emerson hyperquizzitistical.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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Colonel Cross was twistical; but I did not know how to help myself, when he came and said that he must have money, and could not afford to wait for it; but that if I would give another mortgage for three times as much as the principal and interest came to on the whole farm, he would lift the other, as he knew a man in Wetherville who would advance it if I would make further improvements, so as to accommodate all the company that would like to come.
Tales of Glauber-Spa 1833
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In his mind’s eye he saw the curate and the queer twistical look he’d have.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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In his mind’s eye he saw the curate and the queer twistical look he’d have.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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B. is all right, but earthward he is rather twistical. "
Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century Mifflin Wistar Gibbs 1885
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"In the last war with Britain, the Constitution frigate was close in once on the shores of Ireland, a-lookin 'arter some marchant ships, and she took on board a pilot; well, he was a deep, sly, twistical lookin' chap, as you e'enamost ever seed.
The Clockmaker Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
qms commented on the word twistical
Don't fall for the cynical listicle
Where news is typically mythical.
The "ten things you must"
Are hot air and dust,
Just click-bait that's wickedly twistical.
August 11, 2017
ruzuzu commented on the word twistical
Another great one. Thanks, qms.
August 11, 2017