Difference between Involved and Tortuous

INVOLVED vs TORTUOUS: ADJECTIVE

Marked by repeated turns and bends
Not straightforward
Highly involved or intricate
Having or marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting.
Not straightforward; circuitous; devious.
Highly involved; complex.
Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding.
Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
Injurious: tortious.
Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
Oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most rapidly and obliquely
Highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

Synonyms Sinuous, serpentine, curvilinear, circuitous, indirect, roundabout.
Figuratively, circuitous; devious; irregular; crooked: especially in a moral sense.
Oblique: applied in astrology to the six zodiacal signs which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.
Full of twists or turns; winding; hence, crooked; zigzag.
An obsolete variant of tortious.

Intricate, Attached, Convoluted, Complex, Mired, Tangled, Concerned, Committed, Active, Entangled, Embroiled, Participating, Interested, Implicated, Engaged

Laborious, Arduous, Involved, Indirect, Crooked, Intricate, Complex, Tangled, Twisting, Twisty, Winding, Knotty, Byzantine, Labyrinthine, Convoluted

Intricate, Attached, Convoluted, Complex, Mired, Tangled, Concerned, Committed, Active, Entangled, Embroiled, Participating, Interested, Implicated, Engaged

Laborious, Arduous, Involved, Indirect, Crooked, Intricate, Complex, Tangled, Twisting, Twisty, Winding, Knotty, Byzantine, Labyrinthine, Convoluted

CEOs involved for the civic good, what can?
Italian courts were involved in getting her freed.
Howells have been involved in drafting the paper.
OR RECORDINGS OF AN INCIDENT THAT INVOLVED XX.
ALSO, PLEASE LET ME KNOW ANY COSTS INVOLVED.
Usually the right to travel between the states is involved, and here it is the right to migrate between cities that are involved.
Wise is a trial lawyer who has been involved in several high profile prosecutions and has been involved in all facets of criminal law.
She was also actively involved in the Junior League of Collin County and the many organizations that her children and grandchildren where involved in.
In Cuyler, the Supreme Court concluded that a federal question was involved because the states involved had entered into a compact.
Involved in status meetings which involved business, testing and core technology group on weekly basis.

Instead, gene and behavior are often connected by tortuous routes.
It was mentally tortuous, almost like being in a gulag.
It has thus passed some severe and tortuous tests already.
ANT: Indirect, winding, incurved, tortuous, sinuous, serpentine, circuitous, waving, crooked.
Engorged and tortuous veins always indicate some underlying pathology.
Tortuous vessels often demonstrate a finite amplitude of waviness.
Proving citizenship in Assam is a tortuous process.
Dilated and tortuous blood vessels in dermal papillae.
The Agreement has a somewhat tortuous negotiating history.
Hello, I want to share my tortuous experience.