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Crookedness

noun

A tortuous and twisted shape or position. Synonyms: contortion, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness. "The acrobat performed incredible contortions"

Having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles.

The quality of being deceitful and underhanded. Synonym: deviousness.

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"Crookedness" Quotes from Famous Books

... breakfasted, Jason had brought him the first letter from her. It had started by detailing his every move of the night before—and it had ended with an ultimatum: "The cleverness, the originality of the Gray Seal as a crook lacked but one thing," she had naively written, "and that one thing was that his crookedness required a leading string to guide it into channels that were worthy of his genius." In a word, SHE would plan the coups, and he would act at her dictation and execute them—or else how did twenty years in Sing Sing for that little Maiden Lane affair appeal to ...

— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

Words linked to "Crookedness" : straightness, crooked, distortion, dishonesty, configuration, form, torsion, shape, conformation, distorted shape, contour, contortion