Crookedness Definition

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"
  2. having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles
  3. the quality of being deceitful and underhanded

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