contortionate

English

Etymology

contortion +‎ -ate?

Adjective

contortionate (comparative more contortionate, superlative most contortionate)

1. contorted or contorting
   • 2008 June 29, Steve Coates, “Reading Lolita in Moscow”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.”