"contortionate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From contortion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).",
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          "ref": "2008 June 29, Steve Coates, “Reading Lolita in Moscow”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "So it’s hard not to be amused at Nina L. Khrushcheva’s contortionate attempts to recruit him as a sociopolitical figurehead for the land of his birth in her earnest and urgent “Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics.”",
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  "word": "contortionate"
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