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What does sinuous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sinuous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having curves in alternate directions; meandering.
  2. Moving gracefully and in a supple manner.
  3. (figuratively) Morally crooked; shifty.
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Some designs have a sinuous, undulating quality that is identifiably French.
Campylostoma exhibits rather rectilinear lateral longitudinal ridges whereas those of Corazzatocarcinus n. gen. are sinuous.
He ran a sinuous path of flagstones down the center of the yard, and built a pavilion at the back of the yard.
My eyes scan the pewter-grey mudbanks and mudflats and a distant shoreline etched with filigrees of sinuous creeks.
The building's exterior is nothing but curves and lines, sinuous and simple, like the body of a ballet dancer.
With just a few strokes of a loaded brush, he can indicate an elaborately costumed figure or the sinuous gestures of a tropical vine.

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