contortionate
adjEtymology
From contortion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
- derived from contortion
Definitions
contorted or contorting
- So it’s hard not to be amused at Nina L. Khrushcheva’s contortionate attempts to recruit him as a sociopolitical figurehead for the land of his birth in her earnest and urgent “Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics.”
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