- Cunning
- Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding;
as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
- Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous;
deceitful.
- Injurious: tortious.
- Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from
Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
- Cautious
- Clever
- Cunning
- Alt. of Cannei
- Astute
- Calculating
- Canny
- Clever and perceptive
- Cunning
- Shh! Rude to talk about calculating
- Inclining to shrew; disposing to curse or scold;
hence, vicious; malicious; evil; wicked; mischievous; vexatious; rough;
unfair; shrewish.
- Artful little devil simply left
- Conniving
- Crafty
- Crafty and somewhat grisly
- Cunning
- Every other US ally is devious
- Finishes deviously like a fox