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CROOKEDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does crookedness mean?
• CROOKEDNESS (noun)
The noun CROOKEDNESS has 3 senses:
1. a tortuous and twisted shape or position
2. having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles
3. the quality of being deceitful and underhanded
Familiarity information: CROOKEDNESS used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tortuous and twisted shape or position
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Synonyms:
contortion; crookedness; torsion; tortuosity; tortuousness
Context example:
the acrobat performed incredible contortions
Hypernyms ("crookedness" is a kind of...):
distorted shape; distortion (a shape resulting from distortion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("crookedness" is a kind of...):
configuration; conformation; contour; form; shape (any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline))
Antonym:
straightness (freedom from crooks or curves or bends or angles)
Derivation:
crooked (having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The quality of being deceitful and underhanded
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
crookedness; deviousness
Hypernyms ("crookedness" is a kind of...):
dishonesty (the quality of being dishonest)
Derivation:
crooked (not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive)
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