a. colloq. [irreg. f. TWIST + -ICAL.] Somewhat twisted or crooked; fig. not straight or plain in character; morally or mentally tortuous.
1815. D. Humphreys, Yankee in Eng., 43. In his dealings with t’other sex, he is a leetle twistical.
1852. A. Ballou, Spirit Manifest., Pref. 9. They are … prejudiced, captious, twistical.
1890. Harper’s Mag., Feb., 449/1. It lay on the route to Edinburgh, at a rather twistical sort of corner.
