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• v  curl, wind, or twist together
• v  practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive
• s  rolled longitudinally upon itself
  a convolute petal

• From their agreement sprang one of the most convoluted conspiracies since Guy Fawkes schemed in 1605 to blow up the English Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder.
• The most recent bubble offered CDOs, Option ARMS, Structured Notes and a virtual lexicon of complex and convoluted financing.
• The Gorilla of Wall Street, as Fuld was known, steered Lehman deep into the business of subprime mortgages, bankrolling lenders across the country that were making convoluted loans .

• convolve
• twist
• twist around
• pervert
• sophisticate
• convoluted

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• Leonardo DiCaprio in Vancouver Sun (subscription)
  It's finding another way to convolute the issue and argue about semantics and things that ultimately don't matter,says DiCaprio, sitting in the shade of a cabana as that yacht - really, it's the mother of all yachts; it looks as if it's left...
• Wasim Jaffer in Daily News & Analysis
  The Vettori videos can wait. No need to convolute the mind before a final,Jaffer said.