contortionate

adj

adj

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

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.”2008 June 29, Steve Coates, “Reading Lolita in Moscow”, in New York Times:

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