in a confused mass; pushed back her tangled hair; the tangled ropes'
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
[ Syn: byzantine , convoluted , involved , knotty , tortuous ]