Byzantine, adj.
highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious
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Byzantine convoluted involved knotty tangled tortuous
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"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"
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similar to
of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium
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Byzantine
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derived from/pertains to
of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it
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Byzantine
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"Byzantine monks""Byzantine rites"
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