twistical

Adjective

twistical (comparative more twistical, superlative most twistical)

1. (archaic, colloquial, regional) Crooked; tortuous.
   • […] I will meet Mr. Paine again at Point-no-Point, very properly so named because, as he observes, “it continually recedes at a distance a-head; and when you have got as far as you can go there is no point at all.” So it is with Mr. Paine’s twistical reflections on religion and government:1791, Isaac Hunt, Rights of Englishman, London: J. Bew, page 28
   • He had queer twistical ways of reasoning which often proved the contrary of what he seemed to want to prove;1871, John William De Forest, Overland, New York: Sheldon, Chapter 15, p. 79
2. (archaic, colloquial, regional) Perverse; unfair; dishonest.
   • Godward he is an excellent man, manward he is rather twistical.c. 1797 John Leland, remark made while preaching, cited in Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society, Berkshire Book, 1892, Volume 1, p. 283
   • […] well, he was a deep, sly, twistical lookin chap, as you een amost ever seed.1836, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker, Halifax, NS: J. Howe, p. 111