Today’s word: flexuous.

Thomas Hardy uses the word twice in The Mayor of Casterbridge: once as flexuous, and another time as flexuousness. What a word — it melts like chocolate under the tongue, and feels almost immoral to speak aloud.

Flexuous: full of bends or curves; sinuous.

That’s a more seductive definition than this: Bending alternately in opposite directions; zigzagged.