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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a tortuous and twisted shape or position;
- Example: "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"
- Example: "the acrobat performed incredible contortions"
[syn: tortuosity, tortuousness, torsion, contortion, crookedness]

2. having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles;

3. the quality of being deceitful and underhanded;
[syn: crookedness, deviousness]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Crookedness \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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

crookedness
    n 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, crookedness]
    2: having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or
       angles [ant: straightness]
    3: the quality of being deceitful and underhanded [syn:
       crookedness, deviousness]