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Pos: Noun
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun crookedness has 3 senses

1.  crookedness(n = noun.shape) contortion, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness - a tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions"
is a kind of distorted shape, distortion

2.  crookedness(n = noun.attribute) - having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles;
is a kind of
configuration, conformation, contour, form, shape
Antonym: straightness
Derived form adjective crooked1

3.  crookedness(n = noun.attribute) deviousness - the quality of being deceitful and underhanded;
is a kind of dishonesty
Derived form adjective crooked2


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

crookedness, n.

   The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness. [1913 Webster]


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Obliquity

N  obliquity, inclination, slope, slant, crookedness, slopeness, leaning, bevel, tilt, bias, list, twist, swag, cant, lurch, distortion, bend, tower of Pisa, acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd, rising ground, hill, bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity, gentle slope, rapid slope, easy ascent, easy descent, shelving beach, talus, monagne Russe, facilis descensus averni.


Distortion

N  distortion, detortion, contortion, twist, crookedness, grimace, deformity, malformation, malconformation, harelip, monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis, ugliness, talipes, teratology, asymmetry, irregularity, distorted, out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked, not true, not straight, on one side, crump, deformed, harelipped, misshapen, misbegotten, misproportioned, ill proportioned, ill-made, grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn, camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed, bandy, bandy legged, bow legged, bow kneed, knock kneed, splay footed, club footed, round shouldered, snub nosed, curtailed of one's fair proportions, stumpy, gaunt, bloated, scalene, simous, taliped, talipedic, all manner of ways, crooked as a Virginia fence.