sinuous

Adjective

1. Having curves in alternate directions; meandering.
   • We followed every bend of the sinuous river.
   • [W]hen a transverse, or, within certain limits, an oblique impulse, impinges laterally upon a continuous mountain range, two movements of vibration are communicated; the one, a wave transmitted along and in the line of...
   • [A] peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian...

   Synonyms: curvy serpentine wavy windy

   Antonyms: flat straight

2. Moving gracefully and in a supple manner.
   • We were entranced by her sinuous dance.
   • Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes...

   Synonyms: fluid

   Antonyms: abrupt broken

3. Morally crooked; shifty.
   • On 16 December 1999, Lanny Davis, one of the President's more sinuous apologists, was asked on an MSNBC chat show to address the issue and replied that Ms. Broaddrick had been adjudged unreliable by the FBI. - 2000,...