CROOKEDNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being deceitful and underhanded

Synonyms:

crookedness; deviousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("crookedness" is a kind of...):

dishonesty (the quality of being dishonest)

Derivation:

crooked (not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive)

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)

Meaning:

A tortuous and twisted shape or position

Example:

the acrobat performed incredible contortions

Synonyms:

contortion; crookedness; torsion; tortuosity; tortuousness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("crookedness" is a kind of...):

distorted shape; distortion (a shape resulting from distortion)