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contortionate

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

contorted or contorting

Examples

“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.””

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

contortionistic contortive contortuplicate contourable contoured contouritic

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