sinuous

adj

1. Having curves in alternate directions; meandering.

   “We followed every bend of the sinuous river.”

   “[A] peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian disc.”

   “The way through the wood was shorter, but it was also sinuous. He missed his way, and, as a direct consequence, missed his train.”

   “My own apprehension rose again to a superlative pitch as we swept down from St. Neots at all but 110 m.p.h. towards those sinuous curves round the bank of the Ouse near Offord, and were almost on to them before we suddenly braked.”

2. Moving gracefully and in a supple manner.

   “We were entranced by her sinuous dance.”

   “Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.”

3. (figuratively)Morally crooked; shifty.

   “On 16 December 1999, Lanny Davis, one of the President's more sinuous apologists, was asked on an MSNBC chat show to address the issue and replied that Ms. Broaddrick had been adjudged unreliable by the FBI.”