twisting
Having many twists
Adjective
- Having many twists
- The mountain road is even more twisting than the valley road.
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Noun
- gerund of twist
- She was oblivious of all around her, and her facial twistings and scrunchings were droll. - 1984, Theodore R. Sizer, Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School:
- Tracing Emerson’s famous twistings and turnings, Mr. Poirier argued that even when he seemed most complacent […] Emerson cannot be taken at face value. - 2009 August 23, Alexander Star, “Richard Poirier: A Man of Good...
- Engineers decided not to use hydraulics, to ensure there was no twisting or buckling to the 80-tonne girder structure. - 2021 July 14, “Network News: Network Rail engineers raise Machynlleth bridge”, in RAIL, number...
- The disreputable practice of selling unnecessary insurance to a customer in order to earn commission.
- Twisting benefits an insurance agent while damaging the customer. The agent benefits because the commission earned on the sale of a new health insurance policy is substantially higher than that earned on the renewal of...
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Verb
- present participle and gerund of twist