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- adverb in a
twisty manner; characterised by manytwists ,bends orturns .
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Examples
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Only on the large dressing-table, on the left-hand side of the oval swing-glass, was one book covered in red velvet, and on it, very twistily embroidered in yellow silk and mixed up with misleading leaves and squiggles were the letters, A.B.C. 'Perhaps it's a picture alphabet,' said Mabel, and was quite pleased, though of course she was much too old to care for alphabets.
The Magic World Gerald Spencer Pryse 1891
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On forest roads climbing twistily through the Alps, it proved possible to drive the new M-class hard into corners without causing nausea to rise for driver or passenger.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Neil Lyndon 2011
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