intricate russian

• сло́жный

  complicated, complex, intricate, compound

  difficult

• замыслова́тый

  intricate, complicated

• ювели́рный

  jewellery, jewelry, fine, minute, intricate

• мудрёный

  complicated, intricate, elaborate, tricky

• зате́йливый

  intricate, ingenious, fanciful

• прихотли́вый

  whimsical, capricious, fastidious, fanciful, intricate

• хло́потный

  troublesome, difficult, laborious, burdensome, intricate, painstaking

• вы́чурный

  pretentious

  overly intricate and decorated

• закру́ченный

  convoluted, intricate, complex

  twisted, coiled, wound

• узо́рочье

  intricate patterns, ornate designs, elaborate ornamentation

• заве́рченный

  spun, twisted, wound up

  convoluted, intricate, tangled

• изощри́ться

  to refine one's skill, to become sophisticated, to become more artful

  to contrive, to devise (something intricate), to be inventive

• изощря́ющийся

  sophisticated, elaborate, intricate, refining (oneself), sharpening (one's skill)

• хитро

  slyly, cunningly, intricately, with cunning, adroitly

Examples

• Э́то был изощрённый план по обма́нному лише́нию зако́нных насле́дников насле́дства.

  It was an intricate scheme to defraud the rightful heirs.