crookedness
1Crookedness — Crook ed*ness, n. The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness. [1913 Webster] …
2crookedness — index criminality, fraud, improbity, indirection (indirect action), irregularity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
3crookedness — crooked ► ADJECTIVE 1) bent or twisted out of shape or position. 2) informal dishonest or illegal. 3) Austral./NZ informal annoyed; exasperated. DERIVATIVES crookedly adverb crookedness noun …
4crookedness — noun see crooked …
5crookedness — See crookedly. * * * …
6crookedness — noun The state of being crooked …
7crookedness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Lack of smoothness or regularity: asymmetry, inequality, irregularity, jaggedness, roughness, unevenness. See SMOOTH, STRAIGHT. 2. Informal. Departure from what is legally, ethically, and morally correct: corruption …
8crookedness — n. quality of being curved; dishonesty …
9crookedness — crook·ed·ness …
10crookedness — noun 1. a tortuous and twisted shape or position they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs the acrobat performed incredible contortions • Syn: ↑tortuosity, ↑tortuousness, ↑torsion, ↑contortion • Derivationally relate …
