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crookedness

Other forms: crookednesses

Definitions of crookedness
  1. noun
    having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles
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    antonyms:
    straightness
    freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles
    type of:
    configuration, conformation, contour, form, shape
    any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
  2. noun
    a tortuous and twisted shape or position
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    type of:
    distorted shape, distortion
    a shape resulting from distortion
  3. noun
    the quality of being deceitful and underhanded
    synonyms: deviousness
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    type of:
    dishonesty
    the quality of being dishonest
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