The populace at large tends to support moderate policies.
He was the only mayor who garnered support from the local populace.
Why do you say things in a convoluted way? What are you getting at?
This manual is extremely convoluted. I don’t follow.
She has all the right qualifications, but is ill-equipped for the job.
My boss is ill-equipped to take on so much responsibility.
Her literary executor has burnt all her letters, as if to efface her correspondence with her friends when she was alive.
My biological father disappeared, effacing his traces.