CozyEnglish

Adjectives
1. (adj.) byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous;
  - highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious;
  - “the Byzantine tax structure”; “Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship”; “convoluted legal language”; “convoluted reasoning”; “the plot was too involved”; “a knotty problem”; “got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering”; “Oh, what a tangled web we weave”; “tortuous legal procedures”; “tortuous negotiations lasting for months”;

2. (adj.) tortuous, twisting, twisty, voluminous, winding;
  - marked by repeated turns and bends;
  - “a tortuous road up the mountain”; “winding roads are full of surprises”; “had to steer the car down a twisty track”;

3. (adj.) tortuous;
  - not straightforward;
  - “his tortuous reasoning”;