Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a twisting manner; by twisting or being twisted.

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  • adverb In a twisting way; with twisting movements or a twisted shape.

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Examples

  • Being in mid-leap when he received the blow Jerry was twistingly somersaulted sidewise before he struck the deck on his back.

    CHAPTER VIII 2010

  • The report -- with the tongue-twistingly long name the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development -- stressed in no uncertain terms the importance of agroecology and small-scale farming and the need for sustainable management of livestock, forest, and fisheries.

    Anna Lappe: 3 Pillars of a Food Revolution 2010

  • The report -- with the tongue-twistingly long name the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development -- stressed in no uncertain terms the importance of agroecology and small-scale farming and the need for sustainable management of livestock, forest, and fisheries.

    Anna Lappe: 3 Pillars of a Food Revolution 2010

  • I was mildly disappointed on my day in Wales not to find anything odder than the occasional w in an odd place -- nothing tongue-twistingly unpronounceable.

    The girl who kicked the publisher's keister for misplacing an apostrophe Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • The report -- with the tongue-twistingly long name the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development -- stressed in no uncertain terms the importance of agroecology and small-scale farming and the need for sustainable management of livestock, forest, and fisheries.

    Anna Lappe: 3 Pillars of a Food Revolution 2010

  • Zodiac Tower is a puzzle game of sorts – a bit like Tetris, a bit like every other puzzle game we've featured as a Slackerjack, a bit like Mystic Meg – and it's so mind-twistingly fiendish that you'll be coming back to it again and again.

    SLACKERJACK – Tetri Tower 2007

  • Not only do they not name the online service, but then they go and call the controller the tongue-twistingly horrible "Sixaxis".

    Sony's Online "Strategy" Greg Tannahill 2006

  • "Don't move a muscle," Ki-Gor commanded, and started up the tangle of vines that coursed twistingly up the huge tree trunk.

    Death Stalks The Ruins Adams, Stephen 2005

  • She went twistingly down, slowly, almost thoughtfully, and opened her mouth, oh, in a moan that remained unsounded.

    THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

  • She went twistingly down, slowly, almost thoughtfully, and opened her mouth, oh, in a moan that remained unsounded.

    THE BODY ARTIST DON DELILLO 2001

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