tan·gled /ˈtæŋgəld/
1. in a confused mass; "pushed back her tangled hair"; "the tangled ropes"
synset: tangled
2. 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"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months"
synset: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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