contortionate

adj

Etymology

From contortion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

  1. derived from contortion
  2. formed as contortionate — “contortion + -ate

Definitions

  1. 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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