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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

... law. No legal claim of any kind could be made against him and he was perfectly aware of the fact. The proprietor of the establishment was a thoroughly unscrupulous individual with a shady record, and the games played there were open to a suspicion of crookedness. My friend had previously been told that. He had only to let the loss go unpaid and ignore the whole incident, without the slightest fear of consequences, so far as honest people ...

— Heart and Soul • Victor Mapes (AKA Maveric Post)

... Ansdore for its associations—under its roof she had been born and her father had been born, under its roof she had known love and sorrow and denial and victory; she could not bear to think of leaving it. The queer, low house, with its mixture of spaciousness and crookedness, its huge, sag-ceilinged rooms and narrow, twisting passages, was almost a personality to her now, one of the Godden family, the last of kin that ...

— Joanna Godden • Sheila Kaye-Smith

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