Synonyms for crookedness
crooked·ness

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1. tortuosity, tortuousness, torsion, contortion, crookednessnoun

   a tortuous and twisted shape or position

   "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions"

   Synonyms:
   deformation, tortuosity, torsion, torque, complication, deviousness, knottiness, tortuousness, complicatedness, contortion

   Antonyms:
   straightness

2. crookednessnoun

   having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles

   Synonyms:
   tortuosity, contortion, torsion, deviousness, tortuousness

   Antonyms:
   straightness

3. crookedness, deviousnessnoun

   the quality of being deceitful and underhanded

   Synonyms:
   tortuosity, obliqueness, contortion, torsion, deviousness, tortuousness

   Antonyms:
   straightness

Matched Categories

1. • Dishonesty
   • Distorted Shape
   • Shape

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1. crookednessnoun

   Synonyms:
   tortuousness, tortuosity, sinuosity, incurvation, curvature, deformity, curvity, wryness, anfractuosity, dishonesty, improbity

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1. Theodore Roosevelt:

   when I say I believe in a square deal I do not mean ... to give every man the best hand. if the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair. all I mean is that there shall be no crookedness in the dealing.