crookedness

crookedness
See crookedly.

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  • 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] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • crookedness — index criminality, fraud, improbity, indirection (indirect action), irregularity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • crookedness — 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 …   English terms dictionary

  • crookedness — noun see crooked …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • crookedness — noun The state of being crooked …   Wiktionary

  • crookedness — (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 …   English dictionary for students

  • crookedness — n. quality of being curved; dishonesty …   English contemporary dictionary

  • crookedness — crook·ed·ness …   English syllables

  • crookedness — 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 …   Useful english dictionary

  • List of Biblical names — This is a list of names from the Bible, mainly taken from the 19th century public domain resource: : Hitchcock s New and Complete Analysis of the Holy Bible by Roswell D. Hitchcock, New York: A. J. Johnson, 1874, c1869.Each name is given with its …   Wikipedia

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