crookedness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a tortuous and twisted shape or position
    tortuousness; contortion; tortuosity; torsion.
    • they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs
    • the acrobat performed incredible contortions
  2. noun having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles
  3. noun the quality of being deceitful and underhanded
    deviousness.

WordNet


Crook"ed*ness noun
Definitions
  1. The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.

Webster 1913